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Still, Evans was worried about reports that Lloyd's was facing a rising tide of claims from asbestos-industry workers who were dying of lung diseases--cancer and asbestosis--caused by exposure to the building material. Tut, tut, said a Lloyd's executive who dismissed the risk and explained that while the Names "were of course liable in theory for losses right down to their cufflinks, in practice it never happens because it's all reinsured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lloyd's Of London Falling Down | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

...from the communists, it would also be extremely difficult. Czech polls show that the war in Kosovo, often dubbed Madeleine's War, was opposed by 75 percent of the Czech people. Also, Havel's term is not up until January 2003. He has been weakened by an operation for lung cancer and has no strong political base, so his approval would not help her politically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Albright Launching Her Listening Tour? | 2/27/2000 | See Source »

DIED. JIM VARNEY, 50, rubber-faced comic who made hundreds of commercials and nine movies as the dimwitted Ernest P. Worrell, a cult figure in the 1980s famous for the catchphrase "KnowhutImean?"; of lung cancer; in White House, Tenn...

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

...After struggling with lung cancer for two years, Jim Varney, the actor known for his "Ernest goes to" roles, has been dead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: 15 Minutes | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

...sucking on a Havana at a ritzy martini bar. Also alarming, say the researchers, is the increasing use of smaller cigars, sometimes known as cigarillos. The lower pH levels in these cigars, say the report's authors, make users more likely to inhale them, thus increasing the chance of lung cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cigars Healthy? You're Blowing Smoke | 2/16/2000 | See Source »

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