Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...source of the new hope is the experience of Patricia Haut, a former real estate broker from Auburn, Michigan. Eleven years ago, Haut, then 44, was found to have a slowly progressing but often fatal form of B-cell lymphoma, a disease that afflicts the very white blood cells that make antibodies in the first place. Like most patients, she initially responded to chemotherapy. But after each treatment, the cancer recurred. Then three years ago, as her remissions grew ominously shorter, Haut enrolled in an experimental trial of monoclonal-antibody therapy at Michigan. Over the course of five weeks...
...concede that I once did not view marijuana as dangerous, knowing that it is not physically addictive or lethal. (A fatal dosage would be three-quarters of a ton smoked over a 15-minute period.) Accordingly, I believed marijuana laws to be draconian, a view once shared by Jimmy Carter, Dan Quayle and Richard Nixon's marijuana commission, all of whom favored decriminalization. It was only after my appetite for recreational drugs had abated, and I had produced children whom I did not believe capable of "handling" marijuana as responsibly as I had, that I came to oppose decriminalization...
...lifesaving powers. Perot worker Debbie Kraus told of her sister, who in April was found to have an inoperable brain tumor--until Perot had her flown in his private jet to a team of Dallas neurosurgeons, who discovered a treatable aneurysm. Ex-sergeant David Campbell, who suffered near fatal wounds in the Gulf War, attested to how Perot helped dispatch a team of doctors to rescue him from death's door. Besides testimonials, the main business was to hear the Reform candidates for President.Winner: Perot, with 65% of party members' ballots, over former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm. That, at least...
...five years on assisted suicide charges, Kevorkian is once again a controversial figure, this time in the suicide of 42 year-old Massachusetts resident Judith Curren. Curren had been suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome and fybromalgia, a painful muscle disorder which left her unable to move. Neither illness is fatal. A report released Monday by the Oakland County medical examiner says that he found no evidence of chronic fatigue syndrome or any other disease. But Curren had been contemplating suicide for four years, and finally against her husband's wishes, traveled to Michigan -->