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Although it's uplifting to talk about living with cancer, dying with cancer is the more honest reality. Cancer is overtaking heart disease as the No. 1 killer in the U.S.: An estimated 565,650 Americans will die from it this year alone, according to the American Cancer Society. Because the incidence of cancer increases with age, the nearly 80 million baby boomers now crossing into their 60s will probably drive the number even higher. At current rates, 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women will eventually have some form of cancer diagnosed. (Why the gender disparity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Won His Battle With Cancer | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

That would require a commitment to stop building new homes in harm's way and to stormproof existing homes. It would also require some honest assessments about where defense is possible and where retreat is necessary. The president of low-lying Plaquemines Parish declared after Gustav that "one home lost in Plaquemines is one home too many"--which is not a realistic standard. Politicians can make promises, but they can't make Dulac safe. And those politicians need to focus on protection instead of pork; before Katrina, the Corps was spending more money in Louisiana than in any other state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gustav's Lessons for New Orleans | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...effect on the fans of a team that hasn't won a major trophy in more than three decades was electric. "It's quite surreal, to be honest," says Kevin Parker, general secretary of the Manchester City Supporters' Group and a fan for 35 years. "We're having trouble wiping the smile off our face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Flowing into English Soccer | 9/2/2008 | See Source »

...Awakening band by the Iraqi government. "If the government was really looking after the Awakening councils, our salaries would come from the government," al-Obeidi said. "Believe me, even if I get less money from the government than from the Americans, I would feel cleaner and more honest to be taking pay from the government... Any honest Iraqi would prefer to get it from the Iraqi government. I don't want to see any weapon in these streets. I impose law in this city, which the Americans and the Iraqi army have failed to do. I don't want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dark Days for Iraq's Awakening | 9/1/2008 | See Source »

...know there are those who dismiss such beliefs as happy talk. They claim that our insistence on something larger, something firmer and more honest in our public life is just a Trojan Horse for higher taxes and the abandonment of traditional values. And that's to be expected. Because if you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Klein: Obama's Speech 'Very Tough' | 8/29/2008 | See Source »

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