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...time he completed his job as medical director of the U.S. Surgeon General's landmark 1964 report linking smoking to lung cancer, Peter Hamill, who started lighting up in medical school, had quit. The experts Hamill oversaw analyzed 8,000 studies from around the world, finding a 70% increase in the mortality rate of smokers over nonsmokers. The report changed public perceptions and prompted tobacco companies to add warnings on cigarette boxes...
Historian Winthrop Jordan's landmark 1968 book, White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro 1550-1812, was not intended to critique modern race relations. But its layered research--which showed an absence of racism when whites and blacks first encountered each other as equals--proved that discrimination was not an ingrained American trait but a cruel and unusual choice...
...debates. "We don't want a zealot in there," she says. "We want someone who's going in there with a heart and compassion who'll talk reasonably and present the options." And, she adds, she would never, ever show graphic pictures or movies like The Silent Scream, the landmark 1984 video that presents an abortion being performed in which the fetus is portrayed as crying in pain. The women who come through her door, Wood says, "are traumatized enough already. Why would we do that? We're trying to be caretakers. I know how I'd respond if somebody...
DIED. Angelo (Sonny) Mercurio, 70, mobster turned informant who provided unprecedented access to federal agents in a landmark case; in December; of a pulmonary embolism. He had been living under the witness protection program in Little Rock, Ark. The self-described "stool pigeon" tipped off agents to a top-secret 1989 induction ceremony in Medford, Mass., attended by 17 reputed mobsters. The result, the first ever recording of such a rite, toppled a powerful New England crime family...
...figure that, coming from the cerebral Roberts, the argument probably makes sense. The court, after all, wisely achieved unanimity in Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark school-desegregation decision that left no doubt about what the law should be. By contrast, the splintered ruling in Bush v. Gore suggested that partisanship rather than the law guided the court's resolution of the 2000 presidential election...