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Harrison died at a friend's home in Los Angeles last week at age 58, losing his last battle with cancer. In 1997 he had a cancerous lump removed from his neck; earlier this year he was operated on for a cancer found on his lung and subsequently received treatment for a tumor on his brain, including a controversial form of radiation therapy at the Staten Island University Hospital in New York City. "George is very different from many people in that he didn't have fear of death," said Gil Lederman, one of his doctors there. "He felt that...
...MAKES YOU SICK Once inside the body, anthrax bacteria emerge from their dormant spore phase and begin to reproduce and spew out toxins, which poison tissues and cause organs to fail. Inhaling spores is most likely to result in death because the germs burrow into lung tissue, where they come in close contact with lymph vessels. These serve as the body's liquid highway, transporting nutrients, debris--and bacterial toxins--throughout the body...
...signaling-inhibitor drug that he helped develop, is being studied as a potential treatment for colorectal and lung cancers as well as aids-related Kaposi's Sarcoma. Ullrich's U3 will attempt to identify more communication molecules that can be targeted in the war against cancer...
DIED. ALICE TRILLIN, 63, wry, influential author and educational-TV producer; from heart failure relating to treatment for lung cancer; in New York City. Trillin's frequent writings on cancer included a 1981 article on the relationship between patients and their doctors that is still used in medical schools. Widely known as a muse for her husband, humorist and TIME contributor Calvin Trillin--in whose works she often appears as a voice of wisdom and reason--Alice Trillin also co-founded the innovative PBS show Behind the Scenes, featuring Penn and Teller, designed to teach preteens about creativity...
...most unsettling secret.” He continues to tell us about the strange, singing little man who dresses up as a muskrat that is a result of their union. The plot thickens when this little man impregnates a woman who is living in an iron lung and helps spawn four talking puppies. The story ends when the narrator finds these four puppies and tells us that he has finally found a family. This surreal story is told in such a terse, direct way that one begins to forget that there anything unusual about...