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...DOES CHEMOTHERAPY COMPARE WITH YOUR PREVIOUS HEALTH BATTLES--A BRAIN TUMOR AND A HEART- BYPASS OPERATION? [For the brain tumor] they put a parasol on your forehead and cut out a piece of your skull two inches by two inches, and then they take a scoop and go inside and fiddle with your brain. [For the bypass] they had my heart on the table, and I was Code Blue. And then there was the doctor who [mistakenly] diagnosed me with ALS and said I had a short time to live...
...years as head of the gas-and-oil trading firm United Energy Systems. Perhaps because the agendas are so complex, the official line has sometimes been confusing. Yushchenko has spoken of re-examining 30 or so cases of privatized firms, while Tymoshenko - who describes corruption as "a cancer tumor" that needs to be removed (see interview) - has said that as many as 3,000 companies could be reviewed. First Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Kinakh, the head of a government commission on reprivatization, describes the previous sale of state assets as "a cynical carve-up and snatching of economic and material...
...mentor, founded a publishing house and secured a printer on the writer's behalf. Meanwhile, Williams worked during weeks in intensive care, editing from her hospital bed. When Williams contracted pneumonia in May 2004, McGrath figured someone else would have to finalize the edits. "But as aggressive as her tumor was, Stephanie was just as aggressive," says McGrath. "When I handed her the galleys, she pulled off her oxygen mask and pointed out an error in the typeface." In June, Williams finally held copies of her novel, Enter Sandman, printed months ahead of schedule. At the book's launch party...
...disease, an often curable cancer of the lymph system, which his doctors say he has a 70% chance of surviving; in Washington. The chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Specter will continue to work while undergoing chemotherapy over the next six to eight months. "I have beaten a brain tumor, bypass surgery and many tough political opponents, and I'm going to beat this too," he said...
...knows that because of his nature he will not be accepted. So he pulls the strings behind the scenes." But he has his own, odd kind of principle. In the first season's most arresting scene, he smothers to death a preacher who is dying slowly of a brain tumor. The act is tender and cruel, merciful and selfish (the reverend is taking up a bed in the Gem), and McShane simply leaves us to ponder which motivation is dominant...