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Jobs has battled pancreatic cancer and has been looking exceptionally thin since the summer. Rumors that he'd be skipping the event had circulated for days. Still, the announcement itself was about as shocking as hearing that Barack Obama would be skipping the Inauguration and sending Joe Biden in his stead. (See pictures of Steve Jobs...
Laiou died of thyroid cancer at Mass. General Hospital on Thursday afternoon...
Some Nobel Prizes have gone to discoveries that turned out to be wrong. The 1926 Nobel Prize in Medicine went to Johannes Fibiger for the discovery that roundworms cause cancer (they don't). A year later, psychiatrist Julius Wagner-Jauregg won for injecting patients with malaria to treat syphilitic dementia (not a good idea). Past laureates have espoused eugenics, opposed public school, joined the Nazi party and claimed that the Sept. 11 attacks were an inside job. But the majority of prizes have reflected sound discoveries (X-rays, quantum physics, penicillin) and respected leaders (Martin Luther King, Albert Einstein, Nelson...
...don’t want some random antenna being put up,” said Yang Gao ’11, a Pforzheimer resident. Jokingly, he added, “It could give me brain cancer...
...that revealed their character and intellect, such as "Which Sex and the City character do you most relate to?" and "What is the best rumor you've heard about yourself?" Furthermore, Emile has said he will donate at least ?1,500 ($2,240) to British charities that support breast cancer research. But, according to the opposition, throwing money at a worthy issue can't compensate for the harm that the contest exacts on women in general and on cancer victims in particular. "One of the biggest problems facing women with breast cancer is that they lose their hair and their...