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HARTFORD: Former world heavyweight champ Mike Tyson was in stable condition after suffering a punctured lung and fractured ribs in a motorcycle accident Wednesday, a hospital spokesman said. "He's OK, he's awake and alert, he walked in on his own," said the hospital's James Battaglio...
Death comes to the elderly in many ways, including heart and lung failure, chronic disease and plain bad luck. But David Hoffman, an assistant U.S. attorney in Philadelphia, thought he spied something else at work last year, when he saw festering bedsores eating away the flesh of three residents in a local nursing home. He knew the home had been pocketing government money the residents were given to ensure good care, and he saw the bedsores as proof that they weren't getting it. He investigated and later sued Geriatric and Medical Companies Inc., which operated the Tucker House nursing...
...cola wars, Coca-Cola CEO Roberto C. Goizueta was the ultimate brand loyalist. His devotion to Coke made him wealthy and enriched his shareholders, as well as the city of Atlanta. But his loyalty to a somewhat obscure brand, True cigarettes, made him more susceptible to the lung cancer that killed him last week at age 65, ending Goizueta's remarkable stewardship of the world's biggest brand. Goizueta's illness was diagnosed in September, and the company expressed optimism about his return as he continued to work from his hospital room. But following chemotherapy and radiation treatment, Goizueta fell...
...Haney and Lockheed gifts were among the largest of the $1 million raised by Gore and the university for the chair established 10 years after Nancy Gore Hunger died of lung cancer...
...makes an atomic disaster so unlikely? Heat-resistant ceramic jackets around each plutonium pellet, which can easily withstand the temperature of reentry and the force of an explosion. If the system does fail, Cassini's opponents warn, trace amounts of plutonium could be inhaled and cause cancers of the lung, bone and liver. NASA's response: the average exposure would equal about 2 millirems over 50 years, a dose so mild that it makes standing next to your microwave look dangerous...