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[Nancy Brinker] created the Komen foundation in 1982 to fulfill a promise to her sister, Susan Komen, who had died of breast cancer at age 36. Now 58, Brinker is also a breast-cancer survivor

Mr. [Cheney], 64, who has had four heart attacks, will remain overnight in the hospital after the procedure. Steve Schmidt, his spokesman, described the surgery as an elective procedure so it would ''not become a problem over time.'' The aneurysm is in the popliteal artery behind Mr. Cheney's right knee, his spokesman said. During a routine examination in July, the vice president's doctors ''identified small, dilated segments of the arteries behind both knees,'' according to a statement

Ruge was standing near Reagan when John W. Hinckley Jr. shot him in the chest outside the Washington Hilton and followed in another car as the Secret Service sped the president to George Washington University Hospital. Ruge later said in interviews with this reporter that he had erred in neglecting to invoke the 25th Amendment to transfer presidential powers to vice-president George Bush temporarily, because of Reagan's need for emergency chest surgery, requiring general anesthesia. Ruge said that he wanted to be publicly invisible as the White House physician and declined to talk with medical reporters at the time. But Ruge later said that he had also erred in refusing interviews

Medical records of the former Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, from the French military hospital where he died in November, which had been held in secrecy, reveal that his death was caused by a stroke that resulted from a blood disorder caused by an unknown infection. The first independent review of the records, obtained by The New York Times, shows that despite extensive testing, his doctors could not determine the underlying disease that killed him. But the records dispel one significant and widespread rumor that Arafat died of AIDS. The course of his illness and pattern of his symptoms make AIDS highly unlikely, according to independent experts who reviewed the records at the request of The Times. The experts also suggested that poisoning was highly unlikely, although senior Palestinian officials continue to allege that Arafat, who died Nov. 11 at age 75 after an illness lasting a month, was poisoned. The records also indicate that Arafat did not receive antibiotics until Oct. 27, or 15 days after the onset of his illness, which was originally diagnosed as a flu. That was only two days before he was transferred to the Percy Military Training Hospital in Clamart, outside Paris, and it was probably too late to save him, according to the Israeli and American medical experts consulted by The Times. They agreed to review the records on condition that they not be identified by name. The specialists have no prior connection to the case. A senior Palestinian official provided Arafat's medical records to Avi Isacharoff and Amos Harel, Israeli journalists who are working on a new edition of their book, 'The Seventh War: How We Won and Why We Lost the War With the Palestinians.' They agreed to share the records in collaboration with The Times, which did its own investigation. Arafat's final illness began suddenly when he vomited and had abdominal pain and watery diarrhea hours after his supper in his compound in Ramallah, where the Israelis had kept him isolated for three years. These symptoms included a constant urge to defecate, but no fever, and continued for two weeks. He became stuporous and lost three kilograms, or seven pounds

He said news accounts during Mr. [Yasser Arafat]'s illness made him strongly suspect Mr. Arafat had AIDS. But after studying the records, he said that was improbable, given the sudden onset of the intestinal troubles. Many senior Palestinian officials say Mr. Arafat was poisoned. In a recent telephone interview from Amman, Jordan, for example, his personal doctor, Ashraf al-Kurdi, said he believed Mr. Arafat was poisoned. Theoretically, someone could have put the toxin in what Mr. Arafat ate. But Mr. Arafat did not have some of the features of this type of food-borne illness

Yasser Arafat's medical records from the French military hospital where he died in November, which have been held in secrecy, reveal that he died of a stroke that resulted from a bleeding disorder caused by an unknown infection. A first independent review of the records, obtained by The New York Times, shows that despite extensive testing, his doctors could not determine the underlying disease that killed him. But the records dispel one significant and widespread rumor that Arafat died of AIDS. The course of his illness and pattern of his symptoms make AIDS highly unlikely, according to independent experts who have reviewed the records at the request of The Times. They also suggest that poisoning was highly unlikely, although senior Palestinian officials continue to allege that Arafat, who died Nov. 11 at age 75 after an illness lasting a month, was indeed poisoned. The records also indicate that Arafat did not receive antibiotics until Oct. 27, or 15 days after the onset of his illness, which was originally diagnosed as a flu. That was only two days before he was transferred to the Percy Military Training Hospital in Clamart, outside Paris, and it was probably too late to save him, according to the Israeli and American medical experts consulted by The Times, who agreed to review the records on condition that they not be identified by name. The specialists have no prior connection to the case. Israelis note that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon saw Arafat as a terrorist and an obstacle to peace, and had been on record as favoring his elimination. In 2002, Sharon told the newspaper Maariv that he regretted not 'eliminating' Arafat in 1982, during the Lebanese war. Arafat's death would have saved many lives, Sharon said, 'but we had a commitment' not to harm him, 'and commitments must be honored.' He also said then that 'we have no intention of harming Arafat personally.' Uri Dan, a Sharon confidant, wrote in November 2004 that he remembered meetings in 1982 held by Sharon, then defense minister, in his Tel Aviv office 'in which he asked the heads of the Mossad when they would finally carry out Prime Minister Menachem Begin's order to eliminate Arafat.' In September 2003, Sharon's vice prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said of Arafat that 'killing him is definitely one of the options.' He added: 'We are trying to eliminate all the heads of terror, and Arafat is one of the heads of terror.' There have been reports in the Israeli press of a secret cabinet decision made in late 2003 to eliminate Arafat, which Dan describes as 'a deliberately vaguely worded decision to remove Arafat, since he was an obstacle to peace.' Officials have hinted that operational plans were drawn up to eliminate Arafat, although they say no action was taken

The Ramallah doctors initially thought Arafat had ''a flu.'' His own physician, Dr. Kurdi, was not allowed to come to Ramallah until Oct. 28, the day before Mr. Arafat was evacuated to Paris, an indication of the war over Arafat's care between Suha Arafat and his closest political colleagues, which continued until his death, and afterward. Israelis note that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon saw Arafat as a terrorist and an obstacle to peace. In 2002 Mr. Sharon told the newspaper Maariv that he regretted not ''eliminating'' Arafat in 1982, during the Lebanese war. Arafat's death would have saved many lives, Mr. Sharon said, ''but we had a commitment'' not to harm him, ''and commitments must be honored.'' The French records say Arafat died of natural causes. And Israel denies it had anything to do with Arafat's illness or death. On Wednesday a senior Sharon aide, Raanan Gissin, repeated the denial and pointed out that Mr. Sharon offered any medical help necessary last October to care for Arafat, allowed doctors to visit him and allowed him to seek medical care abroad

Many senior Palestinian officials say [Yasser Arafat] was poisoned. In a recent telephone interview from Amman, Jordan, for example, Arafat's personal doctor, Ashraf al-Kurdi, said he believed Arafat was poisoned