Word: ruth
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...DIED. RUTH WARRICK, 88, who made her film-acting debut in Citizen Kane but went on to greater fame with a 35-year run in ABC's soap All My Children; in New York City. After playing Orson Welles' icy first wife in Kane, she had a middling film career before finding her m??tier as All My Children's overbearing socialite Phoebe Tyler Wallingford, who once barred a chauffeur from her library because he was wearing jeans. "You say Phoebe," Warrick said, "and 50 million people know what you mean...
...DIED. RUTH WARRICK, 88, who made her film acting debut in Citizen Kane but went on to greater fame with a 35-year run in ABC's soap opera All My Children; in New York City. After playing Orson Welles' icy first wife in Kane, she had a middling film career before finding her m?tier as All My Children's overbearing socialite Phoebe Tyler Wallingford, who once barred a chauffeur from her library because he was wearing jeans. "You say 'Phoebe,'" she remarked, "and 50 million people know what you mean...
...women with breast cancer. The team found that oleic acid also enhanced the effectiveness of breast-cancer drug Herceptin. Breast cancer is the second-deadliest cancer among women; more than 400,000 died from the disease in 2002, according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Ruth Lupu, lead author of the report, said the results "lead us to an exciting path of inquiry about diet and breast-cancer treatment and prevention." Of course, lab results don't always translate into clinical practice. But for women trying to ward off breast cancer, olive oil has never tasted so good...
...took an unusual coalition of five Justices, including conservatives like Antonin Scalia and liberals like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to come up with the landmark ruling that the guidelines violated defendants' right to a jury trial. But when the Justices debated a remedy, Ginsburg flipped her vote. Instead of backing the Scalia camp's solution, which was to let jurors listen to and rule on all the factors previously reserved for judges, she sided with Justice Stephen Breyer and their three other colleagues, who argued that judges should consult the guidelines but use their discretion on a case-by-case basis...
...cannot sleep at night. And if they do sleep, I hope they have nightmares. I hope they wake up in a cold sweat. And I hope the person next to them realizes what's going on and says something." --With reporting by Theunis Bates/ London, Marc Hequet/St. Paul and Ruth Laney/ Baton Rouge