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...Firefighter • It Was All Part of the Job A lieutenant with the FDNY survives that day, only to be forced into retirement due to crippling lung problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How We Remember: Our Lives Since 9/11 | 9/8/2006 | See Source »

DIED. Rudi Stern, 69, artist who specialized in what he called "painting stories with light"; of lung cancer; in Cadiz, Spain. In the 1960s, Stern designed projections for concerts by classical musicians and rock acts like the Doors and for psychedelic fetes put on by LSD promoter Timothy Leary. He later revived a dormant medium by establishing the aptly named New York City gallery Let There Be Neon, creating installations for performance artist Laurie Anderson and emblazoning the façade of a 78-story Hong Kong building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Aug. 28, 2006 | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

...after his big-time bonk, Landis, who suffers from a degenerative hip condition that will require replacement surgery, staged the most spectacular comeback in Tour de France history. He blazed over three steep, lung-burning mountain passes, shredding the field to win the day's 125-mile race by nearly six minutes and pull into third place in the overall standings, just 30 seconds behind ex-teammate and leader Oscar Pereiro of Spain. "He went from the penthouse to the outhouse to the moon," says Ventura. Saturday, as expected, Landis sprinted past Pereiro and Carlos Sastre, also from Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Lance Armstrong? | 7/22/2006 | See Source »

...knew who would become sick. (Other studies were so-called retrospective reports, which can lead investigators to jump to conclusions since they already know the outcome.) She and her colleagues are also trying to determine whether the experimental CT scans they used to find the tumors could help detect lung cancers in current and former smokers at a much earlier stage, thereby increasing the likelihood of successful treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lung Cancer and the Sexes | 7/16/2006 | See Source »

There's one thing about which all investigators already agree: lung cancer is particularly deadly (85% of patients die within five years of their diagnosis) and almost entirely preventable (85% of people with lung cancer are current or former smokers). So the take-home message is clear: don't smoke--and if you do smoke, quit. You would think no one would still have to say that in 2006. But the sad fact of the matter is that more women are smoking--and dying-- than ever before in the U.S., and smoking is also increasing among men and women around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lung Cancer and the Sexes | 7/16/2006 | See Source »

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