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Investigators have found that injecting standard chemotherapy into the abdominal cavity-instead of intravenously alone-increases survival with advanced ovarian cancer by, on average, a remarkable 16 months...
Mining, however, is a different kind of danger, and its disasters take us not just out of our routine but out of our time. The men?and they are still mostly men?risk explosion or asphyxiation, to say nothing of cancer and emphysema, not for a principle or a geopolitical end but to put food on the table. They hark back to Dickensian, even prehistoric times, when making a living meant chancing death...
DIED. LOU RAWLS, 72, Grammy-winning singer who performed doo-wop with high school pal Sam Cooke before recording a long list of soulful tunes for broader audiences in genres from jazz to gospel; of lung and brain cancer; in Los Angeles. Making more than 50 albums over 40 years, the man who Frank Sinatra said had the "silkiest chops in the singing game" topped the charts with R&B tunes (Love Is a Hurtin' Thing), pre-rap monologues (Tobacco Road) and, during the height of the 1970s disco craze, the rich, sophisticated "Philadelphia sound" typified on his signature megahit...
Finally, in addition to all the other reasons to eat fruits and vegetables, there are some that relate to the brain. The pigments that account for the varied colors of vegetables and fruits have antioxidant properties that offer significant protection against cancer and other chronic diseases, as well as protection from a range of environmental toxins, including pesticides. Toxic injury to the brain is almost certainly the cause of Parkinson's disease, and probably amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease). For that reason alone, it's a good idea to eat every day from as many parts...
DIED. RONA JAFFE, 74, novelist best known for The Best of Everything, published in 1958 and quickly turned into a movie by 20th Century Fox; of cancer, in London. Written with a canny eye to film adaptation, the book followed the fortunes of four beautiful stenographers torn between love and ambition, a pre-feminist precursor of Sex and the City...