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...Causey bring down Skilling and Lay? Their lawyers have always maintained that Lay and Skilling knew nothing about Fastow's schemes. If the chief accounting officer says Skilling or Lay knew, says David Berg, a financial-crime trial lawyer in Houston, "it would be a fatal cancer for the defense." But since Causey had been on the defense's side, those lawyers could ask that his testimony be disallowed, arguing that he knows too much about their strategy. Failing that, they will try to tarnish him with praise. Causey is an honest man, they say, who admitted to a crime...
...vaccines against viral and bacterial infections that afflict developed nations, like meningitis and, yes, the flu. "New vaccines for diseases prevalent in developed countries could be priced very differently," he says. And scientific advances, he adds, may soon make it possible to treat a range of diseases, like cancer, with vaccines...
DIED. VINCENT SCHIAVELLI, 57, ubiquitous, droopy-eyed actor who appeared in minor-but-unforgettable roles in some 150 film and TV productions; of lung cancer; in Sicily, Italy. Among the amateur chef's memorable parts: a subway apparition in Ghost, a clueless teacher in Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Frederickson, an asylum inmate, in the Oscar-winning 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...
...reminded us that we spend so much time on trivia that we ignore matters of life and death to other people. Even matters of our own life and death. We think about stem-cell research because Michael J. Fox or Nancy Reagan talks about it. We put off colon-cancer checkups or mammograms, and then get them because Katie Couric reminds us to. Think about that one: the specter of our own slow, painful deaths is not itself enough for us to get a simple test. But the nice lady from the Today show tells...
...course, after the cancer screening, there's always a heart attack to worry about. And Parkinson's. And Alzheimer's. And then all the ails of the rest of the world. Who needs my help more--the New Orleanians or the Kashmiris? Oppressed Christians in China or battered women in Minnesota? MS or MD? If I give to AIDS patients, am I leaving breast-cancer sufferers, starving children and land-mine victims...