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...Saturday, at a Democratic fund-raiser President Clinton pointed out that the future of free access to abortion may rest in the outcome of the 2000 presidential election. His speech, juxtaposed with the announcement by the liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg that she is continuing successful treatment for colon cancer, reminds us just how significant each position on the Court really...
LIFE AT THE PUMP There's new hope for patients whose colon cancer has spread to the liver. Survival rates improve dramatically when cancer-fighting drugs are delivered directly to the liver through a pump implanted in the belly after the malignancy is surgically removed. In a study, 85% of patients who received chemotherapy via the pump along with standard chemo were still alive after two years, compared with 72% on standard chemo alone...
...seems only appropriate that cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, 77 and recently diagnosed with colon cancer, should decide to retire Peanuts in winter. It's the setting of so many of the strips (the last daily one will appear Jan. 3) and the season that best captures his graceful art and playful yet melancholy spirit. Perhaps it's because the lyrical, jazz-inflected animated special A Charlie Brown Christmas remains Yuletide TV's high point after 34 years. Perhaps it's because the snowscapes of Schulz's youth in Minnesota, America's Scandinavia, were the most evocative setting...
RETIRING. CHARLES SCHULZ, 77, Peanuts creator, whose angst-ridden Charlie Brown has been a staple of funny pages for nearly 50 years; on Jan. 4; because of colon cancer (see story, page...
...year-old creator of the comic strip Peanuts announced two days ago that he will be retiring from the comics business after 49 years of drawing Charlie Brown and Snoopy, Linus and Lucy. He decided this after undergoing treatment for colon cancer, realizing he wants to spend more time with his family...