Word: leukemias
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Three researchers, including two microbiologists at the School of Public Health, have conducted a study on leukemia in cats leading them to recommend that more information be gathered on possible links between leukemia in domestic cats and incidence of the disease in humans...
...created a superbrain named Proteus. At home, he has wired up a system that takes care of most of the household chores. This leaves Julie Christie, as his wife, bored and offended to the point of asking for a divorce, especially now that their child has died of leukemia. Weaver departs, but Proteus, unknown to him, has developed a capacity to think without the aid of programmers. Inevitably, some of these thoughts are of a randy nature, and pretty soon it has plugged itself into Weaver's all-electric home in order to imprison and then impregnate Christie...
Died. Andy Devine, 71, gargle-voiced actor who played the hero's pudgy sidekick in scores of western films, turned to TV in the 1950s with Wild Bill Hickok and Andy's Gang; of leukemia; in Orange, Calif...
Brezhnev at 70 looks in robust health, negating rumors over the past three years that he was nearing the end of the road because of cancer or leukemia, gout or heart trouble. He has given up smoking at the insistence of his doctors. He puts in a busy schedule. His one concession to age is that he now wears a hearing aid in public. There is no indication that he plans to retire voluntarily, which would be an unprecedented action for the top Soviet leader...
Spacek has a good perspective on all these encomiums. When she was 18, her brother, a local track star, died of leukemia. "My parents told me, 'You don't know how long you'll be around. You have to use your life for the things that matter to you.' Still, I've been trying not to take myself too seriously...