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...closest thing we will ever find to a wonder drug. Not only does it relieve headaches, ease the pain of arthritis and thin the blood to ward off strokes and heart attacks, but as we learned last year, it may also protect against cancers of the pancreas, colon and prostate and even forestall Alzheimer's disease. Unfortunately, we also learned that aspirin isn't a wonder drug for everyone: some 30% of Americans are aspirin resistant and may need either higher doses or a different drug altogether...
DIED. THERESA MILLER, 44, teacher at Columbine High School who ran through the halls warning students and staff while Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were conducting a massacre that killed 12 students and a teacher; of colon cancer; in Littleton, Colo. On hall duty at the time, she escorted students to hiding areas, put out a pipe-bomb fire and stayed by the side of basketball coach Dave Sanders as he died on the floor of a classroom...
...will follow the TV camera just about anywhere it wants to go--whether it's up Katie Couric's colon or down on bended knee with The Bachelor. Few places are safe from a prying lens, but one that has remained mostly off limits is the jury room--where ordinary men and women can wield life-and-death power over their peers. "The jury remains the last great black box of American democracy," says Jeffrey Abramson, author of We, the Jury: The Jury System and the Ideal of Democracy. "It's the government institution we know the least about...
DIED. KIM GALLAGHER, 38, who bested chronic illness to win two Olympic medals in the 800-m race; of a stroke, after battling cancer of the stomach and colon; in Philadelphia. She underwent surgery for ovarian cysts six months before her silver-medal win in Los Angeles in 1984. Her 1988 time in Seoul is still the third fastest by an American woman in that race...
...middle of the family's boom time intrudes the realest thing imaginable: in Episode 2, Sharon is diagnosed with colon cancer. Ozzy, on tour and distraught, begins self-medicating with prescription drugs and drinking heavily. "She's the whole world to me," he tells the camera in a rare serious moment, and it's no exaggeration: you can't imagine the gentle, trembly rocker managing five seconds without her support. Sharon invites MTV into her chemo sessions and her sickroom with typical brazenness ("Sharon, how's your a__hole today?" she jokes. "Oh, much better, thank...