Word: braine
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Since starting in Congress as one of the few new Democrats after the Republican rout of 1994, Kennedy, then 27, worked hard to shed the "Congressboy" image that led a local radio station to mock him by playing the tune If I Only Had a Brain. One who has been impressed is House minority leader Dick Gephardt. The two men share the same left-of-center ideology, and Kennedy has proved his determination and drive to his mentor through tireless campaigning for other House members and fireplug advocacy of such causes as education and health care...
...sense, Lance Armstrong started the race a hero. In 1996 the Texas-born cyclist was found to be suffering from testicular cancer that had spread to his brain and lungs. The prognosis could not have been grimmer. But by the time the dust settled on the 13th leg of the Tour de France last Saturday, 27-year-old Armstrong had run up a nearly 8-min. lead on his closest competitor, a big cushion in this 20-stage race. And if his lead holds, Armstrong's achievement will be all the more remarkable. "The Tour de France is like running...
...October 1996 doctors told Armstrong he had testicular cancer that had metastasized, affecting one lung and provoking two brain tumors. "If you'd told me the day after I was diagnosed that I'd be here today leading the Tour de France, there'd be no way I'd believe you," says Armstrong as he stretches his thigh muscles in a hotel room along the race circuit. He is taut and lean, and his close-cropped brown hair has replaced the temporary baldness caused by his treatment--three months of debilitating chemotherapy and a brain operation to remove the tumors...
Losing a member of our work family can be as devastating as losing a blood relative, and that is why so many of us here at TIME wept when we learned last week that Brigid O'Hara-Forster had suddenly died of a brain aneurysm in London...
...taken to the extreme. Cancer, by contrast, involves changes in the programming of DNA within the nuclei of individual cells. Beyond that, heart disease is an illness that affects a single organ system, while cancer is dozens of different diseases that target body parts as radically different as the brain, breast and bone...