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...controversy also sheds new light on the advances in cancer treatments that make it possible for men like Mitterrand not only to live but also to function at a high level years after their disease is diagnosed. From the moment his cancer was detected in 1981, Mitterrand's doctors kept close tabs on his condition by monitoring the level of certain proteins, called tumor markers, that are produced by cancer cells. Within a month of his first treatments--with radiation and hormones--those levels had plummeted. Radiation killed much of the cancer, and the hormones slowed the growth of whatever...
...soldiers pick and chose what they want to do. Some military people may agree with New's argument that U.S. soldiers should not serve under the U.N., but that's a political decision, and the military can not be a debating society. The only way it can function is as a hierarchy where orders are carried out." The debate may now find its way to Congress, where over 100 members have backed legislation making it illegal to order a U.S. soldier to wear U.N. insignia...
...think there is anything inevitable about leadership. It is more a function of the individuals," Steinberg says. "Right now, there is a group of strong Orthodox freshman, but there is no way of predicting what will happen in the future...
...soup, ice cream, a cookie and an El Producto cigar. That's the lunch diet that has kept GEORGE BURNS going for a century. For Burns, turning 100 this Saturday is no big deal. He'll be feted by Ann-Margret and her mother (among 250 others) at a function celebrating the opening of the Burns and Allen Research Center at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles, but other than that, it's the quiet life. In his new memoir, 100 Years 100 Stories, the man who used to make jokes about his age, like "I hope the next half...
...broadcast TV, cable and the computer has created not a problem for Time, but an opportunity. Having all this access to news does not mean that people today are better informed; it just means they are ill informed about more things. If I'm right, the most important news function on the information highway will not be the provision of data but the sorting, synthesizing and editing of it. That is precisely the job Time was invented...