Word: leukemias
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...door," Stroman recalls, "and he launched into That Face, one of his songs from the show. He danced down the hallway and wound up on top of the sofa. Then he said, 'I'm Mel Brooks.'" The performance won them over, but not long afterward Ockrent became ill with leukemia (he died in December 1999). After a few months' hiatus, Stroman resumed working on her own with Brooks. "I needed someone to make me smile," she says. "Who better than Mel Brooks...
...Residents of two nearby towns have been complaining for years that the signals disrupt doorbells, phones and television sets. Only recently have the health aspects of electromagnetic pollution, dubbed by the Italians elettrosmog, become an issue. A consumer group claims that communities near the transmitters have higher incidences of leukemia among children than those in the rest of the region around Rome, a statistic contested by the Vatican. Two Jesuit officials and one technical expert at the station were supposed to appear in court two weeks ago to answer charges of "dangerous showering of objects," but the hearing was postponed...
...mother of a five-year-old who died from leukemia. A clone of my son created from a lock of his hair would never make it possible for me to forget that he is gone forever. STEPHANIE WOLF Memphis, Tenn...
Getting the world's three greatest tenors-Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and José Carreras-to risk their reputations and submerge their famous egos by appearing on the same stage seemed preposterous. It happened only because Domingo and Pavarotti wanted to help Carreras, financially drained after a battle with leukemia. Yet when the musical titans gathered before 6,000 people at Rome's Baths of Caracalla one July night in 1990, operatic history was made...
...earned the ECAC's Award of Valor given to an athlete "whose courage, motivation and relentless determination serves as an inspiration to all." In the fall of 1997, Stauffer took a year off to provide support for her brother Matt, who died of leukemia in January...