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...Discovery and its crew. The happy landing was a great relief. One dares to ask, however, if the risk of life to the astronauts and the expenditure of immense funds are justifiable. What are mankind's benefits from conquering space? Would the money not be better used for cancer and aids research, for trying to save people instead of endangering them? Jehuda Straschnow Netanya, Israel Skepticism about the I.R.A. "A farewell to arms" reported on the announcement by the Irish Republican Army (i.r.a.) that it is formally ending its armed campaign to force Britain out of Northern Ireland...
...comic series Blackadder and A Bit of Fry and Laurie. In Dr. Gregory House, Laurie and the show's writers have created TV's unlikeliest new hero. The Vicodin-popping specialist's own pain does little to quell his disdain for patients like a 9-year-old cancer victim ("She's such a brave girl; I want to see how brave she is when she hears she's going to die"). "Another actor would have posed as the mumbly, moody, acceptable antiauthority figure," says Robert Sean Leonard, whose character, oncologist Dr. James Wilson, is House's only real friend...
...find myself far more interested in my old friends and in deeper alliances. My 50s are also about being a mother and the joy of my daughter Lucy Jane and about loss. Real loss. My sister Sandra died of breast cancer at 60, so I know about things I didn't know about before. My father died two years ago, and then my friend [the director] Gerald Gutierrez died. He was 53. I think if you experience loss, you also on some level try to treasure joy. It can be as simple as going to the ballet or being with...
...death last week of Chief Justice William Hubbs Rehnquist at 80 was a surprise but not a shock. He had been stricken with thyroid cancer last year and had been widely expected to resign over the summer. But "the Chief" pressed on with his work, hosted his annual basketball-and-croquet get-together with his former clerks in June, angrily denied he was resigning and watched his former Stanford Law School classmate Sandra Day O'Connor step down before him. Friends said Rehnquist had hoped to make it to the opening of the court on the first Monday in October...
...William Hubbs Rehnquist served on the court even longer than Ehrlichman had hoped. When the 80-year-old died Saturday night after battling thyroid cancer, he had been Chief Justice for nearly 19 years and Associate Justice for 14 years before that. Nixon did indeed "salt away" one of the longest serving Chief Justices in history, but was he a "rock-solid conservative...