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...RECOVERING. STEVE JOBS, 49, tireless CEO of Apple Computer; from surgery for pancreatic cancer; in Cupertino, California. He announced the details of his condition?a rare but treatable form of pancreatic cancer?in a companywide e-mail in which he noted, "I'm sending this from my hospital bed using my 17-inch PowerBook and an Airport Express...
Should women at high risk for breast cancer be getting MRIs? A new Dutch study of 2,000 women showed that magnetic resonance imaging detected 80% of tumors, while mammograms found only one-third. MRIs cost a lot more, however (roughly $1,000 vs. $100), and they're not perfect. MRIs produced false alarms 10% of the time, which meant three times as many unneeded biopsies. They also missed cancers that mammography caught. Still, the case for MRIs is strong enough for the American Cancer Society to recommend that women at high risk consider having both MRIs and mammograms...
DIED. TIZIANO TERZANI, 65, Italian-born journalist who reported from Asia for the German newsweekly Der Spiegel and various Italian publications; of cancer; in Florence, Italy. When a fortune-teller predicted he would die in 1993, he refused to fly for a year and wrote a book about it: A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East...
...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. He was buried in his favorite cowboy boots - he had developed a fondness for the American southwest. Don't look for anything morose here. Gweilo is sometimes a bit novelistic for a memoir, but it is alive with delight in the new. The boy's golden hair is considered good luck...
Betty Ford's cancer diagnosis in 1974 prompted a TIME cover story on POLITICAL WIVES, which featured Pat Nixon and Joan Kennedy, along with the brand-new First Lady...