Word: cancers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Jaime Cardinal Sin, who died last week at the age of 76 after a long fight with cancer, once wore his power lightly. He had a sly sense of humor-invaluable for a priest named Sin-and some of his sharper critiques of the dictatorship of President Ferdinand Marcos came in the form of jokes and quips. That gentle method of opposition gave way to something bolder on Feb. 22, 1986, when Sin told Manila's residents to go out into the streets to protect military men who had split from Marcos; this turned into the potent force now known...
Meanwhile, AIDS sufferers received some encouraging news last week in a study published in the Lancet, a British medical journal. Doctors at the National Cancer Institute and Duke University reported that an experimental anti-AIDS drug, azidothymidine, or AZT, improved the immune system of 15 of the first 19 patients to receive it, producing at least a temporary respite from their condition...
...fewer fevers and infections, as well as weight gain and greater appetite, benefited from increases in the number of the immune system's vital white blood cells known as helper-inducer T cells, which are killed by the AIDS virus. Most significant, said Dr. Robert Yarchoan of the National Cancer Institute, the study shows that when the deadly virus is blocked, "the immune system of an AIDS patient can at least partially reconstitute itself...
...including Easy Living (1937), Beau Geste (1939), The Major and the Minor (1942), The Big Clock (1948), Dial M for Murder (1954) and Love Story (1970), as well as most memorably The Lost Weekend (1945), in which his searing portrait of a desperate alcoholic earned him an Oscar; of cancer; in Torrance, Calif. Once one of the best handgun and rifle marksmen in the British army, the dashing Milland stumbled into acting in minor roles, went to Hollywood and so enjoyed his craft that he abandoned a brief retirement in the early 1960s to take TV and movie character parts...
...wittily and used then banned words like virgin; The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), which graphically depicted drug addiction; Anatomy of a Murder (1959), with its detailed courtroom discus sion of a rape; and Exodus (1960), for which he defied McCarthyist blacklisting by hiring Scenarist Dalton Trumbo; of cancer; in New York City. A successful producer-director in Vienna before coming to the U.S. in 1936, he worked on Broadway and in Hollywood, where his first triumph was the masterly thriller Laura (1944). He also acted on stage and in films, often as a menacing Nazi, a role many...