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Looking back at TIME's extensive coverage of cancer helped me put this hope and frustration into perspective. In 1949 we did a cover on cancer fighter Cornelius Rhoads, whose Sloan-Kettering Institute had tested 1,500 chemicals on mice in hopes of finding "chemotherapy" treatments. In a cover 10 years later, we predicted that "drug treatment will emerge as the equivalent of surgery and radiation," and quoted the National Cancer Institute's John Heller as saying, "I'm confident that we will have some success in the next few years...
...beginning of her hospital stay, with a grin on her face and a clenched fist in the air, she told me that she would beat the disease. Despite harsh chemotherapy side effects, opportunistic infections and pure discomfort, my mother was always the fighter...
...THEM EAT CAKE Lipitor, a cholesterol fighter developed by Warner-Lambert and marketed with Pfizer, roared out of the chute last year, the only Rx rookie to rack up $1 billion in first-year sales. Lipitor lowers cholesterol--and by extension the risk of heart attacks--by interfering with an enzyme that the liver uses to make cholesterol. Analysts expect sales to top $3 billion...
Violating the Treaty of Versailles, which limited the German army to 100,000 men, Hitler embarked on a rearmament program of massive scale: fighter planes, tanks, submarines. His goal? It was enough to read Mein Kampf, written in prison after the abortive coup of 1923 in Munich, to divine its contours: to become, once again, a global superpower, capable and desirous of reconquering lost territory, and others as well...
Walesa is a phenomenon. Still mustachioed but thickset now, he stands for many values that in the West might be thought conservative. Fierce patriotism ("nationalism," say his critics), strong Catholic views, the family. He's a fighter, of course. But he's also mercurial, unpredictable--and a consummate politician...