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...unsettling enough that ABC anchorman Peter Jennings died of lung cancer just four months after announcing his diagnosis. Perhaps more distressing to the 90 million--plus smokers and former smokers out there was that Jennings swore off tobacco 20 years ago and was struck by the disease all the same. It's true that he had resumed smoking after the terrorist attacks in 2001, but he quit again. Can that first puff years ago start a fatal cascade of lung damage that can never be reversed? The answer...
...When PETER JENNINGS told ABC World News Tonight viewers in April that he had lung cancer, he said he had not smoked in about 20 years, except for a while around Sept. 11. "I was weak," he admitted. It didn't show. Jennings, who died four months later at age 67, was at his best after the attacks, reminding Americans of a fact he had devoted his life to: that world news matters. He had become an ABC anchor at just 26, but realizing he was too green for the job, gave it up to be a foreign correspondent, reporting...
...suspect that something is fishy, which leads her down the trail to hoodoo—a cousin of voodoo practiced in Louisiana. And there is the necessary semi-love interest in the form of lawyer Luke, played in true John Grisham style with the twang and the charm of Peter Sarsgaard...
...airstrip at Baghdad Airport, waiting for a C-130 transport to Kuwait just a day after a similar plane had been shot down on take-off from the same airport. "He just sat in a folding chair, reading a book. He was absolutely in his element," says Williams. "Peter never lost a challenge in his life, which is part of the reason that people are so shocked and dumbfounded today...
...Still, says Rather, it was Jennings' hard-earned perspective as a foreign correspondent that defined him most. "Peter was a master at telling a story, reporting in such a way that it told people back home why some of these datelines in faraway places with strange sounding names were important to Main Street, America," says Rather. "I will miss him. But I think the news will miss him even more...