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Kennedy returns to Washington as health care reform heats up

Mar. 5, 2009
Sen. Ted Kennedy, who has been recuperating from brain cancer surgery, was back in Washington on Thursday as President Obama set out to tackle a major domestic policy item on his increasingly loaded plate -- health care reform.
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Kennedy returns home after brain surgery

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Kennedy out of brain tumor surgery

DURHAM, N.C., June 2 (UPI) -- Doctors at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina have completed brain surgery on U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, medical officials said Monday.

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Kennedy's daughter has cancer surgery

BOSTON, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Kara Kennedy, 42, the second of Sen. Edward Kennedy's three children, recuperated Friday from surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from her lung. One of the Massachusetts Democrat's sons, Ted Jr., lost a leg to cancer in 1973.
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler