Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will Susan Sontag resolve her two-part series on "Illness as Metaphor" in January's New York Review of Books? So far, she has proved in exhausting detail that 19th century authors considered tuberculosis a romantic disease. Apparently, part two will show that modern authors do not consider cancer romantic. It all rather leads one to worry about Sontag's worldview: it is a bit morbid, after all, to describe the difference between the centuries in terms of fatal diseases...
...Nepalese government temporarily released the former prime minister from prison in June so he could obtain treatment in the United States for cancer. "His health is very bad," Gershman said...
Despite repeated warnings from the Cambridge Experiment Review Board (CERB), a team of Harvard biologists presses on with what it calls "ground-breaking" experiments using even more obscure strains of E. coli recombinant DNA. At 11:30 on December 31, the head of the research team announces that "a cancer cure may be only fifteen minutes away." At midnight, he turns into a pumpkin...
...felony indictments against Chicago-based Velsicol Chemical Corp. and six present and former employ ees. The executives, all of whom could face prison terms, are charged with con spiring to conceal from the Environmental Protection Agency the results of tests that showed that two widely used pesticides may cause cancer in humans. The indictment is the first ever sought by the EPA against a company for covering up adverse information about a product...
...scientifically insignificant, incomplete readings when the authors of those readings have subsequently stated they were meaningless." Dr. Rust, one of the authors, told TIME last week that he found tumors and severe liver damage in the mice tested but no satisfactory proof that the pesticides were a cause of cancer. Still, he believes that his findings were alarming and should have been brought to the attention of the EPA. The EPA'S action against Velsicol is likely to be the first of several of its kind. Agency sources say that other similar cases are now being prepared...