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...researchers contend that the substance creates new capillaries around a tumor, feeding it with a constant flow of blood...
...Craig Smith), lives in a shack on the dunes, writing his first major play and trying to entangle Kip, a dancer and Nijinsky look-alike (Elton Cormier), in his grimy bedsheets. But both Kip and Clare (Dominique Cieri), who acts as his protector, are doomed, he by a brain tumor, she by diabetes. The entire work is shadowed by death, which is approaching as quickly as the fall. Both characters seem so tentative, however, that it is even hard to imagine that the end, when it occurs, will matter much to them or anyone else...
DIED. Jacques Lacan, 80, controversial French psychoanalyst who in 1964 founded the Freudian School of Paris after being expelled from the International Psychoanalytical Association for unorthodox practices (his sessions with patients were sometimes as brief as five or even three minutes); of an abdominal tumor; in Paris. Lacan, who last year dissolved the Freudian School on the ground that it had fallen into "deviations and compromises," maintained that adult psychic disorders often stemmed from the learning of language-and the repression of nonverbal ideas and urges-during childhood...
Says Joyce Alt, director of nursing at Houston's M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, which offers 30 different schedules: "Absenteeism has been reduced by 50% and turnover by 55%." One contented M.D. Anderson nurse is Laurie Hendley, 36, who now works two 16-hour shifts on a weekend. Before, she says, "I was working 10%-hour shifts, sometimes four days at a stretch. I couldn't get enough rest...
DIED. Daniel Daniel, 91, for more than half a century a leading writer on baseball and boxing and a founder and former editor of Ring magazine; after surgery for a stomach tumor; in Pompano Beach, Fla. Daniel covered baseball from 1909, the heyday of Ty Cobb, until the 1974 World Series, which he reported for the Sporting News, mostly for the now defunct New York World-Telegram and New York World-Telegram...