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...During one of the many trips from Lakefront to pull families out of the waterlogged city that evening, Tarchick?s crew spots a signal. Below, Edna Fleming (her head nearly bald from cancer chemotherapy), her boyfriend Curtis and some of her relatives and friends have been camped for three days out at the top apartment of a two story house on Upper Line in uptown New Orleans. Early on, they could still be merry about the predicament, using their gas stove to deep-fry the frozen chicken as it thawed, and celebrating her niece Nakisha Washington's 29th birthday...
...thriving business. And the lucrative revenues offered by tobacco taxes - nearly 9 percent of the state's tax income in 2003 - are a tough habit for any government to kick. Public health experts, however, praised the ratification as an important step in lowering China's rising rates of lung cancer and tobacco-related disease. About 1.2 million Chinese die of smoking-related deaths annually and the World Health Organization has predicted that one third of the 300 million young men in China will die prematurely of smoking-related ailments. Any measures to dissuade the estimated five million Chinese minors...
After seven straight victories in the Tour de France, it seemed he had won over the world--and maybe even the French. But after an explosive story last week in a French newspaper, Lance Armstrong, who famously beat cancer, is in for another tough ride. L'Equipe, a French sports daily with a long history of questioning his accomplishments, ran a four-page feature, "The Armstrong Lie," claiming "indisputable" evidence that in 1999, the year of his first Tour victory, he used the banned performance-enhancing substance erythropoietin (EPO). Armstrong called the charge a witch hunt. "When I peed...
...allegations taint his legacy, burnished by his commitment to his cancer foundation. (Armstrong says he lobbied President Bush for $1 billion in cancer research during a recent bike ride in Crawford, Texas.) Lab tests have proved that Armstrong is a physically superior athlete. His heart, for instance, is larger than average, so when times are tough he has more resilience than his adversaries. He may need it once again. --By Sean Gregory. With reporting by James Graff
...prison before his release in June 2004. "What really bothers me is that years from now, I'll still have to worry about something I did at age 19," says the offender, who is now 23. "This is like using a broadsword to cut out a lump of cancer." Legislator Jerry Behn, the lead sponsor of Iowa's new residency law, sees things differently. "It's very important not to instill victim status on these predators," he says. "Some inconvenience on them is nothing compared to the lifetime of suffering they give to their victims...