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...casing a red-roofed concrete house where they believed top Mafia bosses were planning an important lunchtime summit. Benedetto Spera, among the most feared and powerful figures in Cosa Nostra, was also scheduled to get a doctor's visit at the hillside farmhouse that day to treat his prostate cancer. The summit was considered so important that authorities suspected Bernardo Provenzano, the Sicilian Mafia's boss of bosses, might even make an appearance. Just after 10 a.m., when the fog had lifted, two helicopters swooped in over the mountainside and a phalanx of police cars, jeeps and armed agents charged...
...people doubted that I would be back in time, and it felt great to shove it in their face that I was back,? said May the day before the gold medal match. May dedicated her Olympic quest to her mother, who died two years ago of cancer, and released some of her ashes on the court after finally securing the gold. ?I wanted her to be here, and I just let the wind take them,? she says...
...concern for Latham, who 10 years ago was treated for testicular cancer, would be that pancreatitis often recurs if a cause isn't identified and acted upon. That can happen within days, weeks, months or years. "There's no way of knowing if and when (it could recur)," says Smith, who adds that, as with many disorders, stress probably plays a role. In a campaign where age and vitality are sure to be issues, Latham will square off against the fitness-conscious 65-year-old Prime Minister without, perhaps, the edge he felt before this latest glimpse...
...Gweilo should rescue Booth from relative obscurity, if only for the story behind it. Two years ago, as the author was battling brain cancer, his children asked him to set down an account of his formative years while he still could. Booth finished just before dying in February...
DIED. ALEXANDRA SCOTT, 8, spunky young cancer patient whose front-yard lemonade stand grew to a national, million-dollar charity research fund; of cancer of the nervous system; in Philadelphia...