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Modesto Bee - Beyer High School senior Sade Hackett and her date, Modesto High’s Matrel Woods, headed to the Beyer prom Saturday night the old-fashioned way by horse-drawn carriage. Sonora actress dies Less than a year after what would be her final performance
Marijuana not linked to lung cancer, research reveals
Tacoma News Tribune - The largest study of its kind has unexpectedly concluded that smoking marijuana, even regularly and heavily, does not lead to lung cancer. The new findings were against our expectations, said Donald Tashkin of the University of California at
Non-smokers With Lung Cancer Respond Better To Treatment Than Smokers
Science Daily - Smoking history contributes to poor outcomes in the treatment of lung cancer, according to a new study. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) lung cancer patients who have never smoked before in their life have better overall survival rates and respond
Invisible waitress, visible victim
Toronto Sun - OTTAWA — Heather Crowe would have been the first to admit a few years ago there was nothing extraordinary about her life. A lifelong waitress, she was an ordinary woman providing for her daughter, with an ordinary job and the ordinary hope and
The weather man
Boston Globe - THIS IS THE AGE of Al Gore, aggrandized. Thanks to “An Inconvenient Truth,” the documentary about Gore’s crusade against global warming, the former vice president has, for the first time in years, been the center of the zeitgeist. There have been
Society’s unhealthy body images angers woman
Vindicator - Dear Annie: Would you please help me deal with what I consider to be the horrific proliferation of cosmetic surgeries to turn women’s bodies into Barbie dolls? Especially breast implants. I’m finding subtle shifts in men’s expectations, and it is