Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Professor of Biostatistics James H. Ware and other panel members met with parents last week to inform them that the building is relatively safe, said Giroux. A preliminary analysis found no connection between the air quality problem and cancer, Giroux added...
Philip Larkin, the pre-eminent poet in English of his time, died, after a brief struggle with cancer, in 1985, at age 63. Soon afterward his diaries were shredded, as he had instructed, at the library of England's Hull University, where he had worked for 30 years in self-elected obscurity. His manuscripts and unpublished poems escaped a similar fate thanks to a contradiction in his will: one clause called for the destruction of these papers, while another allowed trustees of the estate the right to decide which ones merited publication. Given the choice between guillotine and press...
...risk. I'm Your Girl, the record's midpoint and one of its high points, sounds at first like another improbably beguiling Snow song about love gone bad. I'm Your Girl is a love song, all right, but it is about Snow's mother Lili, who died of cancer...
...tobacco companies had fought hardest over the years against the Government's calling nicotine addictive, he stated high up in his Surgeon General's report that nicotine is addictive. "They absolutely hated it," he gloats. He said the companies' claims that science cannot say with certainty that tobacco causes cancer were "flat-footed lies" and that sending cigarettes to the Third World was "the export of death, disease and disability...
Burley's particular project, funded by the National Cancer Institute, involves the collection of Southeast Asian plants that might help in alleviating or curing cancer and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. The work, which is being done jointly with the University of Illinois at Chicago's pharmaceutical program, also entails the interviewing of doctors and other natives who know which plants are used as medicinals...