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Alongside Dr. Benjamin M. Spock, Hughes co-chaired the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE), a group worried about the massive worldwide nuclear arms buildup during the Cold War and nuclear weapon testing...
...NAME: Dr. Bernard Lewinsky OCCUPATION: Scouring news in fear BEST PUNCH: Demanded an apology from the series producer, saying, "There is a family behind this name... Why don't they say he got a Clinton job and see how the White House responds...
...white patients underwent the procedure, compared with 64% of blacks. The difference was sufficiently large to reduce the overall survival rate for black patients to 26% after five years, compared with 34% for whites. It's a gap that concerns the doctors. "People are dying needlessly," says Dr. Peter Bach of Memorial Sloan-Kettering, who led the study. He suspects "some combination of the procedure not being offered or pushed by doctors, and patients not accepting...
Better communication will be even more important as treatments become more complex. Currently there's no screening test for finding lung cancer early. (Chest X rays almost always catch it too late.) But Dr. Claudia Henschke of the Weill Medical College at Cornell University in New York City and her colleagues believe they have found a way to identify very small tumors with low-dose CAT scans. It's a new approach that all smokers and ex-smokers, regardless of race, should keep...
...only through dedication and sacrifice. The first stage was the abolition of slavery, the source of great shame. The next step was an end to legal segregation, and then the guarantee to all Americans of the right to vote. The final stage was equal access to capital for everyone. Dr. King led the 20th century drive to transform American culture. He fought to end segregation by changing the law. If Dr. King had not succeeded and Congress had not passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act, we would not have the multiracial, multicultural society we have today. Dr. King dispelled...