Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long time." For liberals, the stakes were emphasized by the medical problems of three of the four Justices who usually support their views. Thurgood Marshall, 79, was hospitalized last week for a blood clot in his right foot, and William Brennan, 81, for a prostate examination that found no cancer. Harry Blackmun, 78, will enter the Mayo Clinic next month for treatment of prostate cancer...
...speculation about Khomeini's successor, the Ayatullah remains very much the spiritual force behind the Iranian revolution. Reportedly afflicted with a weakening heart and prostate cancer, Khomeini nonetheless grants public audiences, meets weekly with the families of martyrs and even performs Islamic marriage ceremonies. On most days, though, he remains secluded in his house in north Tehran, emerging from time to time to issue the whispery proclamations that echo around the world. Intimates say the Ayatullah yearns to ensure that the revolution will survive long after he is gone. That may not be possible, given the nation's fractious politics...
Surveying 11,600 houses in ten states from Wyoming to Alabama, EPA investigators found that 21% had radon levels exceeding EPA health standards. The American Medical Association promptly declared radon a "risk of substantial magnitude" but described as "somewhat uncertain" federal estimates that attribute 10% of lung-cancer deaths...
Simpson calls herself one of the lucky ones because she had an older sister to help her survive the crippling emotional deprivation of orphanhood. And so she grew up and got married and became a psychotherapist. It was only when her second husband died of cancer that the sense of loss suddenly reawakened, that the "black ink of anxiety spilled and spread, saturating the fabric of my life...
Administration officials had assured friends and reporters that no gays would serve on Ronald Reagan's AIDS advisory commission. Thus conservatives and liberals alike were astonished last week when the President appointed Cancer Specialist Frank Lilly, an avowed homosexual, to the 13-member panel. Lilly, chairman of genetics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, holds doctorates in organic chemistry and biology and has studied viruses similar to AIDS for 20 years...