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...over the past two years, the film has scenes that seem ripped from recent headlines. Last week, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited Iraq and, to the cheers of his military audience, defiantly called himself ?a survivor? (a word traditionally reserved for those who have lived through the Holocaust or cancer, not for someone enduring political difficulties). In the film, a soldier tells Moore?s field team: ?If Donald Rumsfeld was here, I?d ask for his resignation...
...Spring, Buck said that the tutorial will be organized around four to five topics, including the hydrogen and atomic bombs, as well as smoking and cancer. Students will spend part of their time looking at books, but they will also look at the primary documents upon which the books were based...
...doctors just looked at their feet." The Marguses recognized the name (it's pronounced ay-tack-see-uh teh-lan-jick-tay-sha), but all they knew was that A-T was really bad. At home that night they read that about 40% of kids with A-T get cancer by age 12; 100% deteriorate neurologically, so they're in wheelchairs as early as age 8; most die of lung problems or cancer by their late teens or early 20s. "You kind of go through a grief process," Margus says. "Your kids aren't dead, but the kids you thought...
Your report on steroid use in professional sports, "Baseball Takes a Hit" [March 15], included a photograph of Organon USA Inc.'s product Durabolin. The drug, which was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the control of metastatic breast cancer in women, is no longer marketed in the U.S. and has not been for some time. We voluntarily discontinued marketing and selling it about three years ago. Organon never produced or promoted Durabolin for the purpose of athletic-performance enhancement. By including a photo of Durabolin, TIME erroneously and unfairly suggested that the company has contributed...
Democrats are getting in on the act. During their Boston convention, Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas will be the host of a late-night concert party called Rockin' on the Dock of the Bay, with proceeds going to the National Childhood Cancer Foundation. According to a brochure for the event obtained by TIME, $100,000 donors will get 100 free tickets, backstage passes to meet the rock band, a "premium bar" and the chance to groove with Democratic Senators. Steve Patterson, Lincoln's campaign manager, insists his boss sees the party only as "an opportunity to raise substantial funds...