Overall median survival periods for cancer have risen from 12 months to nearly six years since the 1970s, but with little change in some cancers, figures show.
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Cancer survival progress charted
Overall median survival periods for cancer have risen from 12 months to nearly six years since the 1970s, but with little change in some cancers, figures show.
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Cancer survival progress charted
Boarding times at airports have doubled since the 1970s, prompting airlines to try all kinds of elaborate tricks to get passengers in speedily and leave the gate on time.
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Airlines Are Trying to Cut Boarding Times on Planes
Graham Morris took photos of Janet Hodgson when she was apparently posessed by the Enfield Poltergeist in the 1970s.
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AUDIO: Photographer recalls ghostly encounter
Falling incomes will mean the biggest drop for middle-income families since the 1970s, says a report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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UK seeing ‘big rise in poverty’
NEW YORK — It’s a side of Jacqueline Kennedy only friends and family knew. Funny and inquisitive, canny and cutting. In “Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy,” the former first lady was not yet the jet setting celebrity of the late 1960s or the literary editor of the 1970s and ‘80s. But she was also nothing like the soft-spoken fashion icon of the three previous years. She was in her mid-30s, recently widowed, but dry-eyed and determined to set down her thoughts for history. Read full article > >
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New book and audiotapes show new and more personal side to Jackie Kennedy
Times photographers were a presence at Aqueduct, Belmont, Yonkers and Roosevelt from the 1950s through the 1970s.
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Lens: They Had the Horse Right Here
US singer-songwriter Andrew Gold, who enjoyed hits in the 1970s with Lonely Boy and Never Let Her Slip Away, dies in Los Angeles at the age of 59.
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Lonely Boy singer Gold dies at 59
Donald Hewlett, who was best known for his role in the 1970s BBC sitcom It Ain’t Half Hot Mum, has died aged 90.
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Ain’t Half Hot Mum’s Hewlett dies
One of President Obama’s oldest friends, Robert Titcomb, was arrested Monday in Honolulu for soliciting a prostitute. He has since been released on $500 bail. Titcomb, 49, attended the Punahou School in Honolulu with Obama in the 1970s, and the pair…
People who contracted Hepatitis C from contaminated blood in the 1970s and 1980s are to receive more compensation.
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Tainted blood payments increase
A report suggests mothers feel the 1970s and 1980s were the best time to raise children.
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70s and 80s ‘best for children’
A man who was the subject of a public campaign to prove him innocent of a robbery in the 1970s appears in court in a bid to clear his name.
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Man appeals over 1975 conviction
J. Paul Getty III-whose kidnapping when he was 16 in Italy made headlines in the 1970s, died on Feb 5, it was reported Tuesday. A grandson of oil baron J. Paul Getty Sr., Getty’s captors had cut off his ear when his family initially refused to pay a…
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J. Paul Getty III Dies at Age 54
Rodney Alcala, a serial murderer who is on death row in California, was charged with killing two women in the 1970s.
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After Decades, Charges in 2 Manhattan Murders
New book and audiotapes show new and more personal side to Jackie Kennedy
Monday, September 12th, 2011
