Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard and French researchers announced last week that they are joining together in a five-year project aimed at improving the detection and treatment of two common forms of cancer...
...much the same attitude in his first collection of essays: "I consider that I have many responsibilities, but none greater than this: to last, as Hemingway says, and get my work done. I want to be an honest man and a good writer." After Jimmy was operated on for cancer last spring, he went back to writing a book about one of his friends, Martin Luther King Jr., and until the end, he kept hoping to finish it. That work didn't get done...
...artwork is amateurish, but many people are proud to send the holiday greeting cards produced by Houston's M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute. They are the creations of cancer-stricken patients under the age of 17 who, armed with crayons and Magic Markers, draw original images, like a red-suited Santa in a brown cowboy hat. The hospital turns the pictures into cards and sells them worldwide (price: $8 for a pack...
...woman the Captain loves is dying of cancer in this season. In her eighth decade she has learned to accept life in its small and most cherishable doses: the devotion of her daughter; a few close friends; the animals she hovers over because she realized long ago that she was one of them. Around her country cottage, clouds like barrels rolled in pitch inflate the sky, while at his troubled and uncomfortable distance Captain Midlife stammers consolations wholly unnecessary for such a woman. He beats about preparing for her death. She calmly prepares for Christmas and pokes the fire...
When Mathematician Naum Meiman's wife was allowed to leave the Soviet Union to undergo cancer treatment last January, he thought it was a sign that his twelve years as a Jewish refusenik were about to end. But his wife died in Washington a few weeks later, and since then Meiman, 76, a founder of the Soviet human-rights movement, has remained, isolated and in need of surgery he cannot get in the Soviet Union. Soviet authorities point to his once classified work for the Soviet Academy of Sciences 30 years ago as an excuse to prevent him from joining...