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After losing my voice to throat cancer from smoking cigarettes, I learned to speak again, with much work. When I retired from teaching, I began to visit schools and speak to kids about not smoking. My message was, "Nobody told me, but I'm telling you: Look what tobacco did to me." Then I'd whip open my shirt and show the hole in my neck. That's when I know I'm getting through to them. The shock of what cancer can do is the real thing. BILL MOSS Miami

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 28, 1998 | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...must make peace among ourselves before we make peace with our neighbors,? was all Shahak would say after formally resigning his commission Thursday. After a 36-year military career during which he was forbidden to speak publicly on politics, it sounds as if Shahak is still clearing his throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israeli General Goes Where Colin Powell Feared to Tread | 12/24/1998 | See Source »

...would be handed over to the police, the crowd replied loudly that he would not. "We don't trust the police," shouted one man. "We're going to make him into grilled meat," said another. A third man simply lifted his head and ran his finger across his throat. Though several hundred soldiers and policemen were deployed on a road barely 100 yards away, they said they had no orders to intervene. Tahan was stabbed to death at about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Descent Into Madness | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...hills of Switzerland may still be alive with the sound of music, but, unfortunately, it's coming from the Ricola guys. Last week director Blake Edwards revealed that his wife JULIE ANDREWS, 63, will most likely never be able to sing again following throat surgery last year to remove noncancerous nodules. The star of The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins and Victor, Victoria was assured that her singing ability would return within six weeks of the operation. Eighteen months later, her husband told Parade magazine, "If you heard [her voice], you'd weep." Edwards says he is developing a Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 30, 1998 | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

After Johnson left the scene, his "throat was really starting to clench, my eyes were starting to burn, and my skin was really starting to itch." Johnson later learned that the cloud was a witches' brew of toxic chemicals: ethylene dichloride, vinyl-chloride monomer and hydrogen chloride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Welfare: Paying A Price For Polluters | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

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