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...cancer? It's all the rage. Actress Christina Applegate, Senator Ted Kennedy, Olympic swimmer Eric Shanteau, columnist Robert Novak are just the highest profile of the 1.4 million Americans who will get a diagnosis of cancer this year. Walk into the oncology waiting room of a hospital and you'll find it hard not to notice the crowd--or the balding heads, the yellow faces, that gaunt prisoner-of-war look of those who are well into their chemotherapy. You stare blankly across the room at the others staring blankly back, everyone silently asking the question: Am I going...
...That job fell to his wife, First Lady Laura Bush, who seemed to be bristling under that perfect demeanor at the dissing of her man. Offering "a little straight talk" on the Bush record, she extolled education reform ("test scores for minority students are at the highest they?ve ever been"); the appointment of conservatives John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court; the "50 million people...living in freedom" in Afghanistan and Iraq. "You might call that change you can really believe in," she said, in a sly swiping of Obama's slogan...
...Palin made social issues the cornerstone of her governorship. When a parental consent law was struck down by Alaska's highest court in 2007, Palin called the decision "outrageous" but refused calls from conservatives to remedy the defeat by introducing antiabortion legislation in a session that was supposed to be about drilling rights...
...Labor Day weekend The Dark Knight will probably surpass $500 million at the U.S. box office. It has already swept into the record books, with the biggest opening weekend of all time ($158.4 million) and widest opening release of all time (4,366 theaters), and is also the second-highest grossing film ever, behind Titanic's $600.8 million. Director Christopher Nolan's bleak reinvention of the classic comic book character was savvily marketed and aggressively distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures (TIME and Warner Bros. are both subsidiaries of Time Warner) and warmly welcomed by critics, sparking a box office phenomenon...
...Before this storm," said Michael Sparks, executive vice president and CEO of Florida Citrus Mutual, "there was no doubt that greening was this industry's highest priority and greatest concern." So much so that of the Florida Department of Citrus' $60 million budget - collected from growers as a small percentage of each box of fruit produced - more than $20 million has been set aside for disease research, most of which is focused on greening...