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...DIED. KIHARU NAKAMURA, 90, English-speaking geisha from Tokyo's Shimbashi quarter, who entertained such visitors as Babe Ruth, Charlie Chaplin and Jean Cocteau; in New York City. Daughter of a doctor, Nakamura worked as a geisha for 27 years before emigrating to the U.S. in 1956 and later wrote a memoir that was translated into eight languages. In a 1989 interview with the Los Angeles Times, she lamented the loss of the geisha's art in her country. "Japan has become rich," she said. "But the people's minds are getting poorer...
...even know if I know how to spell my name anymore." George Harrison, Beatles guitarist, on his deathbed, according to a $10 million lawsuit filed by his estate alleging that Harrison's doctor coerced the cancer-stricken rock star into signing autographs for the doctor's children. The doctor denies the accusations...
...noon in a hotel conference room in the western part of the city, Yi met with some of the province's highest health officials. There were representatives from the Department of Health, the Guangdong CDC, and the Ministry of Health, as well as eminent doctors and scientists from other institutions. Every man in that room had lived and worked through the first-ever SARS outbreak; many were clinicians who had watched patients whither, suffocate and die from the disease. Of these physicians, the most powerful was Dr. Zhong Nanshan, director of the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease. Famed for having...
...doctor failed him on account of his flat feet, but Kelleher never stopped walking—right up until the day that he got sick...
JIANG YANYONG When SARS hit China in 2002, the regime sought to squash the news. By April 2003, SARS may have infected thousands, but some hospitals emptied their SARS wards when U.N. health officials visited. Retired army doctor Jiang couldn't bear the cover-up and told TIME and other outlets the truth. Finally, the Health Ministry began an education campaign that helped contain the killer virus...