Word: leone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city living in many respects, but researchers at the University of Iowa have found that the state's farmers run much higher risks than urban dwellers of developing and dying from six types of cancer. Analyzing the death certificates of more than 20,000 white male lowans, Dr. Leon Burmeister and his colleagues found that prostate, stomach, lymph gland and lip cancer, as well as leukemia and multiple myeloma (a form of bone marrow cancer), occurred up to three times more frequently among farmers...
...Tyler concedes what we have suspected all along: all of her characters, not only Morgan, act irrationally. Morgan's sister marries her childhood sweetheart, who sleeps with her graduation photo under his arm. His wife publishes his obituary in the newspaper while Morgan is still alive; Emily's husband Leon develops an inexplicable hatred for marionettes. Tyler hammers home Morgan's role as archetype for humanity. As Morgan realizes about his father, human beings simply do not think or act in an orderly or understandable process...
...Nobel Prize." Unanswered questions were a large and tantalizing part of Toufexis' work on this week's cover story on interferon, a substance that researchers feel may be helpful both in the treatment of cancer and in understanding its mechanism. The story was edited by Senior Editor Leon Jaroff. Cancer research is one of the most delicate subjects a medical reporter handles, observes Toufexis: "You don't want to offer readers an unrealistic hope, but you do want to bring progress to light. Interferon is progress...
...Angel Leon, South House athletic secretary, says he's confident that South will overtake Quincy with strong performances in men's squash and women's tennis...
...sophomore year we finished thirteenth and Adams House finished twelfth with twice as many points as us," Leon said, adding, "This is the first year we've actually been competing with a full house...