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...Ebert's own health problems began in 2002, when he underwent surgery to remove a cancerous growth on his salivary gland. He was able to continue doing the show afterward but was forced to take another hiatus in June 2006, when the cancer resurfaced and part of his jawbone had to be removed. While he was still in the hospital, his reconstructed jaw collapsed and a blood vessel ruptured. Emergency surgery saved his life, but because of a breakdown of tissue surrounding the artery, he has been in a constant state of treatment and recovery ever since, which has affected...
DIED. Jorge Luis Borges, 86, blind Argentine author of poetry and fiction, one of Latin America's greatest writers; of liver cancer; in Geneva. Borges was an original: his poetry was somber and elegaic, his short stories at once fantastical and grittily realistic--most notably the mystery-like ''fictions,'' reminiscent of Kafka and Poe. The 1973 return of Dictator Juan Peron prompted him to resign as director of the National Library in his native Buenos Aires. Far from a handicap, being blind, he said, ''leaves the mind free to explore the depths and heights of human imagination...
...hide in their Pripyat homes for more than a month after the accident. Eventually they were found and hospitalized. Their present condition is unknown. All told, about 100,000 people from the Chernobyl vicinity will have to be monitored for the rest of their lives for signs of cancer. Among the most seriously injured were 300 plant workers and firemen, 24 of whom have already died. According to the Soviet press, there were others who took astonishing risks in the battle to control the seething reactor, including helicopter crews that dumped sand, lead and boron on the exposed reactor core...
DIED. Alan Jay Lerner, 67, composer, playwright and lyricist of Broadway hit musicals, including Brigadoon, My Fair Lady, Camelot, Paint Your Wagon and Gigi, and author of the screenplay for An American in Paris; of lung cancer; in New York City. Lerner worked with Kurt Weill and Leonard Bernstein, but his greatest successes were produced during a tempestuous, 20-year collaboration with Frederick Loewe (Lerner wrote the book and lyrics, Loewe the music). The partnership broke up in the early 1960s, but last year, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, the two were jointly honored for their contributions to American...
...pioneered techniques and devices that revolutionized his field, and still persist today. In 1932, while in medical school, DeBakey invented a pump that became a critical part of machines that later enabled open-heart surgery. He was one of the first to recognize the link between smoking and lung cancer, and he performed the first successful coronary bypass. An adamant perfectionist, DeBakey also provided medical advice to some of the most influential leaders of the 20th century, including President John F. Kennedy and Russian leader Boris Yeltsin...