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SOME CRITICS DOUBT the wisdom of exalting such a legendary offender of controlled substance laws. But I have a different bone to pick. Why is the Postal Service violating its ban against portraying living Americans on postage? "We've had tremendous interest in this particular stamp," says Frank frankly. And why this sudden burst of glaspost?? "I wanted Elvis' fans to play an active role in the stamp selection process...
Surgical procedures, more painful and profound, make courts more wary. Two years ago, a Chicago court refused to require twins to undergo tests to determine if their bone marrow could help their half brother who was dying of leukemia. In 1987 a Washington federal court ordered a pregnant cancer patient to undergo a caesarean delivery in an attempt to save the fetus, even though she and her doctors opposed the operation. The baby lived for just two hours. The woman died two days later. But the lower-court ruling doesn't provide a precedent because it was vacated...
Bill Clinton is a politician to the bone, as shown by his refusal to resist the draft out of concern for his "political viability." Paul E. Tsongas has been through the revolving door, serving as a corporate lobbyist. And Edmund G. Brown is a suspiciously recent convert to the "outsider" fold...
...that Paul Tsongas will suffer a relapse or a secondary cancer are difficult to gauge. After conventional treatments failed to eradicate his disease, he underwent a more radical procedure that is too new for doctors to have data on long-term survival rates. The procedure, known as an autologous bone-marrow transplant, was designed to overcome the basic limitation faced by all conventional cancer therapies: in doses sufficient to do their job, they can destroy the bone marrow, the mother lode of all blood cells, red and white. By removing a portion of the bone marrow (and purging it separately...
Cancer survivors cheer when they hear Tsongas speak of the moment on "day zero" that he watched his bone marrow -- and his life -- being pumped back into his body. His candidacy has encouraged other survivors in the same way that wheelchair athletes cheer amputees and paraplegics. "It excites them to know that there's someone who's willing to talk about the disease, who's not afraid to say he's had cancer," says Peggy Baker, director of the cancer- survivors program at the University of Chicago Hospitals...