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DIED. TOM LANDRY, 75, legendary football coach of the Dallas Cowboys; of leukemia; in Dallas (see appreciation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 21, 2000 | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

DIED. TONY BRYANT, 60, Black Panther turned anti-communist who founded a short-lived, conservative black magazine after spending 11 years in a Cuban prison for hijacking a plane to Havana; of leukemia; in Miami. His 1984 book, Hijack, recounted his prison ordeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 31, 1999 | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Cord-cell transplants have been performed for other blood diseases, such as leukemia, but they remain experimental and highly risky. Dr. Andrew Yeager, a transplant physician at Emory University medical school in Atlanta, warned the Penns that not only might Keone die, but there was not even more than a 50% chance the procedure would do any good. After seven years of blood transfusions that were becoming more and more painful and increasingly ineffective, Keone decided he had no other choice. "Mama, I might die anyway," he told his mother Leslie, a medical technician, who left the decision entirely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sickle-Cell Kid | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

DIED. MIKE OCKRENT, 53, British director whose perky retro-musicals, Me and My Girl and Crazy for You, were hits in London and on Broadway; of leukemia; in New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 13, 1999 | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

Despite the success of yesterday's drive, organizers said the number of minority bone marrow donors nationwide--who provide transplants for those with leukemia and other blood diseases--is critically...

Author: By Jonathan F. Taylor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bone Marrow Drive Targets Minorities | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

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