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Testifying on behalf of Glicklich, who is suing the three doctors for $370.000, Dr. Guy Robbins, former head of the Sloan-kettering cancer center in New York, told the jury that Glicklich's doctors should have urged her to have a biopsy...
...lots of help. Guard Ed Sloan shot ten for 12 for a career-high 20 points. Mark Nickens had 15 points and eight steals. Co-captain Dennis Ross laid in 13 points and cleared off a game-high 14 rebounds. The Eagles can probably run and jump with any team in the nation. Shooting the lights out (60 per cent for the night) didn't hurt, either...
...panel, chaired by Dr. Lewis Thomas, chancellor of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, attacks the quality of these studies. The chromosome report, it noted, involved no controls or reviews by independent scientists before it was released. That breach of standard scientific practice, said the panel, "was a disservice to the citizens most intimately concerned and to the public at large." The panel also found fault with an investigator who hinted at nerve damage among Love Canal residents: "Equivocal or ambiguous observations are likely to do more harm than good...
...Smith serves out his full ten years until retirement, he will have held GM's top job longer than any other man with the exception of the legendary Alfred P. Sloan, who ran the company from 1937 until 1956. Smith faces an especially difficult tenure. Although GM had sales of $66 billion last year and produces two out of every three cars coming off U.S. assembly lines-nearly three times as many as second-place Ford-the company's profits as a percentage of sales have ebbed steadily over the past decade. Wall Street analysts predict that this...
...dignity that may have been missing at this moment was evident in the last months of Champion's life. He had been suffering from a rare malignancy of the blood, Waldenström's macroglobulinemia, for some time. Dr. Lilian Reich of New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center said that Champion first showed signs of the disease ten years ago, but that it was not diagnosed until four years later. Throughout the long rehearsal and preview period Champion scheduled his treatments so they would not conflict with his work. Says Dr. Reich: "It was clear...