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...good enough for those millions of cancer patients whose hopes were stirred last week. Hope, for them, is a precious commodity, not something to be rationed or trifled with. Just ask Renee Smith of Dripping Springs, Texas, who three years ago found she has non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. She has a four-year-old daughter she'd like to see grow up and a husband with whom she'd like to grow old. When friends started calling excitedly last week with news of a possible cure, she resolved to maintain a philosophical calm. "I try to live in the moment...
...courage to pursue difficult stories that offend powerful people, or the courage to write a story that cuts against the conventional wisdom. KARSTEN PRAGER, our colleague here at TIME, had that sort of courage in abundance. But throughout his life, which ended when he lost a fight with lymphoma a few weeks ago, he showed a deeper, personal bravery that made him someone very special indeed. As a German boy of eight, he and his mother and siblings made a perilous escape west out of occupied Czechoslovakia to avoid being trapped under the coming Russian terror. And in his first...
DIED. KARSTEN PRAGER, 61, worldly wise TIME foreign correspondent who broadly expanded the reach and scope of TIME's international editions; after undergoing treatment for lymphoma; in Richmond, Va. German by birth, Prager was schooled in America and got his journalistic start in Asia. He joined TIME in 1965, and was a correspondent in Hong Kong, Vietnam, Beirut and Madrid, among other locales. Following his return to New York, he eventually became managing editor of TIME International...
Breindel was hospitalized for gastrointestinal bleeding, massive hermorrhaging and cardiac arrest in the week prior to his death, The Post reported. He had a history of health problems, including a bout with non-Hodgkins lymphoma, according to long-time friend Seth A. Kaplan...
DIED. DENISE LEVERTOV, 74, activist-poet who meditated on the politics of the household and state, writing such fierce antiwar collections as To Stay Alive; of lymphoma; in Seattle...