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...died?either of breast cancer following treatment in Paris or by succumbing to injuries sustained in a car accident last year. Seoul has learned that she was seriously ill, according to a source close to government officials working on the case, and that North Korea recently imported an expensive coffin from France. "The government is trying to confirm various possibilities," is all a spokesperson for South Korea's Unification Ministry would...
...your famous picture of Elvis in his coffin? It was an incredible coup. It was our biggest-selling issue ever. We sold 6.7 million copies. One of my photographers followed a relative of Elvis' to a bar. When he went into the men's room, standing at the stall, our guy said, "Listen, I'm from the Enquirer. Would you like to make some money?" The relative said, "The photo could be done after everything is closed down for the night. They just put the lights out, leave Elvis, and we go and drink until the early hours...
...funny line, but the comedian may have had it backward. Short-term stresses like speaking in public, it turns out, boost your immune system in ways that tend to keep you out of the coffin, not put you in it. That's one of the findings that emerged from a study of 30 years of stress research published last week in Psychological Bulletin, a journal of the American Psychological Association. In a meta-analysis of more than 300 studies involving some 19,000 subjects, psychologists Gregory Miller at the University of British Columbia and Suzanne Segerstrom at the University...
...Sidey described the journey of Nancy Reagan and her family as they flew to Ronald Reagan's grave site in California [THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY, June 21]. After the sudden death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt took a similar journey as a special train carried F.D.R.'s coffin from Warm Springs, Georgia, where he died, to Washington and then to Hyde Park, New York. The train drew hundreds of thousands of mourners all along its route, many openly weeping as the cars moved by. Here is part of our report on the first leg of that journey [April...
...labels, Republican or Democrat. On the occasion of Reagan's death, it was refreshing to witness the divisive labels dropped for a common descriptor: American. As a Canadian, I was moved by the displays of Americans' patriotism - men and women placing hands over hearts as the coffin passed by and the frequent singing of national songs. Days later, I found myself still humming God Bless America. Kathleen Graves Calgary, Canada Reagan's vigorous and heroic speeches were unmatched by those of any other President. He made not only his country but also the rest of the Western world feel strong...