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...YORK CITY: Charles Kuralt, CBS's chronicler of the heart of America, died on the 4th of July. The 62-year-old former host of "On the Road with Charles Kuralt" and "CBS Sunday Morning" died at New York Hospital from complications from lupus. Kuralt joined CBS News in 1957 as a writer after working as a reporter and columnist for the Charlotte (N.C.) News. He quickly rose to prominence at the network, with one of his bosses describing him as "the next Ed Murrow." The self-deprecating Kuralt dismissed such praise as "ridiculous." Kuralt left hard news...
Silicone breast implants have been blamed for virtually every ailment imaginable--muscle aches, joint pain, mysterious rashes, even serious autoimmune diseases like lupus and scleroderma. So it is little wonder that implant lawsuits have clogged the nation's courts and forced one manufacturer, Dow Corning, to seek pre-emptive bankruptcy. Yet many medical and legal experts have long suspected that the blame laid on implants is based on "junk science." Last week, in a bold opinion that surprised legal experts across the country, a federal district court judge in Portland, Oregon, endorsed that view. Expert testimony linking implants...
...contrast, is a disease of the immune system that often strikes people in their 30s and 40s, and sometimes earlier. It is a hot area of research right now because doctors believe a successful approach to rheumatoid arthritis could lead them to treatments for other immune disorders, including lupus and multiple sclerosis...
Examples of connective-tissue disorders are lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren's syndrome and scleroderma...
...dictates of society. Society, he said, tells us to cooperate with one another, indeed, even to "love thy neighbor as thyself"; yet by our nature, we are tempted to exploit our neighbor, "to humiliate him, to cause him pain, to torture and to kill him. Homo homini lupus [Man is a wolf to man]." The Unabomber, too, in his mode aas armchair psychologist, celebrates our "WILD nature" and complains that in modern society "we are not supposed to hate anyone, yet almost everyone hates somebody at some time or other." This sort of cramping of our natural selves, he opines...