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...great heroes, the late housewife writer and feminist Erma Bombeck. It's not a book about social policy or alternative lifestyles or anything even vaguely political. It's a book about how much I miss my mother, who died recently, and about the struggles I have had fighting breast cancer without my mom around to help me. It's a book that pays tribute to the '50s housewife instead of ridiculing...
...occasional Bush critic, Snow says he was a liberal until he read Marx in college "and realized it was all indecipherable hokum." Colon cancer kept him off the air for eight weeks last year. During that time, says Snow, an attendee of Catholic and Episcopal churches, prayers by strangers increased his faith. He took the White House job after a scan of his vital organs came back "pristine...
DIED. Phil Walden, 66, brash impresario and co-founder of Capricorn Records, based in Macon, Ga., a label known during its 1970s heyday as the citadel of Southern rock; of cancer; in Atlanta. Intent on providing a haven for an array of blues, country and pop artists, the former manager for Otis Redding launched the Allman Brothers Band and popularized such acts as the Dixie Dregs, the Marshall Tucker Band and the Charlie Daniels Band...
...decision, which took 17 months to complete, interspersed his reflections about physics, medicine, probability theory and Greek philosophy with the legal issues at stake. "This case is concerned with atoms, with government, with people, with legal relationships and with social values," he wrote. As evidence that atomic tests cause cancer, Jenkins cited several studies, including one of thousands of Utah residents who lived near the testing area: among those residents the incidence of cancer is 50% greater than normal. Some of the malignancy, Jenkins wrote, "is demonstrated to have been caused more likely than not by nation-state conducted open...
...successful plaintiffs were among a vanguard group of 24 whose cases were heard by Jenkins as representative of the claims being made by relatives of 375 cancer victims. In the 14 other cases, the judge decided, atomic radiation was not clearly the cause of cancer. J. MacArthur Wright of St. George, Utah, an attorney who represented the victims, was pleased that Jenkins' decision establishes clear standards for litigating-or settling out of court-the remaining cases. "What I see as important," said Wright, "is that in all of the leukemia cases we tried, the court ruled...