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...Said one attending physician: "I did more lying during this period than in all the rest of my life put together." Still, it was 20 years before the full story of the procedure emerged, although surgeons had discovered a malignant cancer and removed much of Cleveland's gums, inner cheek and upper jaw (an artificial rubber jaw replaced the bone...
...yearly scholarships to college students in return for each year of teaching in subjects where there is a shortage. Houston has created salary add-ons that will allow top teachers to come in at as much as $32,000 to handle such critical assignments as bilingual education in depressed, inner-city schools. And last month the California commission on the teaching profession began consideration of two long-range programs to lure and hold crack teachers: the creation of a prestigious new professional school for well-compensated master teachers and the funding of "key" schools, where administrators and teachers would have...
Most doctors classify colorectal cancers according to a scale developed by an English pathologist named Cuthbert Dukes in the 1930s. The Dukes scale uses the letter A to describe a malignant tumor that is confined to the colon's inner lining, B to characterize one that has spread beyond the inner lining but has not reached the lymph nodes, and C for one that has pierced the outer wall or begun to spread to the lymph nodes. Doctors also use these classifications to estimate patients' chances of survival. Patients with Dukes A tumors have a 90% chance of surviving five...
...acting press secretary when James Brady was wounded in the 1981 assassination attempt on the President, however, Speakes has not enjoyed as much freedom as some of his predecessors, notably Jody Powell in the Carter Administration. Some reporters, sensing that Speakes does not have complete access to Reagan's inner circle, take out their frustrations on him, thus contributing to the combative tone of the briefings...
Pathologists examining the polyp had discovered that it was cancerous and that the malignancy had grown through the connective tissue under the colon's inner lining into the layer of muscle that helps the colon contract. Yet their tests suggested that none of the malignant cells had spread beyond the intestine. Thus it was likely, though not certain, that in removing the 2-ft. section of Reagan's colon that contained the polyp, the surgical team had freed the President of cancer...