Word: cancer
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...Delmas, and from 1981 to 1984 he served as Socialist President Francois Mitterrand's Economy and Finance Minister. When in Paris, Delors lives with wife Marie in a five-room apartment near the Gare de Lyons. They have one married daughter Martine; their only son Jean Paul died of cancer several years ago. Delors's passions other than work are jazz, movies, soccer and the annual Tour de France, which he has twice observed as a commentator on French television...
...produces a compound that appears to be toxic to leaf-cutter ants, which cause millions of dollars of damage each year to South American agriculture. Such chemicals promise attractive alternatives to dangerous synthetic pesticides. Other jungle chemicals have already led to new treatments for hypertension and some forms of cancer. The lessons encoded in the genes of the Amazon's plants and animals may ultimately hold the key to solving a wide range of human problems...
Rosenthal is the chair-elect of the medical staff and the chief of clinical hematology at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is also the former president of the Massachusetts division of the American Cancer Society...
Simons, who was managing editor of The Washington Post during the Watergate scandal, died in June of pancreatic cancer...
Simons, who was managing editor of The Washington Post during the Watergate scandal, died in June of pancreatic cancer...