North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has pancreatic cancer and the illness is life-threatening, South Korean broadcaster YTN said on Monday based on information gathered by Chinese and South Korean intelligence sources.
Kim's health is one of the most closely guarded secrets in the reclusive communist state. Kim, 67, was widely thought to have suffered a stroke last year, but there has never been official confirmation.
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Sarah Palin's political career, dead on arrival.
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Musician Drake Levin, 62, how was guitarist for the sixties bank Paul Revere and the Raiders, of cancer, according to his wife.
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Rock climber John Bachar, 51, not surprisingly in a fall:
Bachar left his mark across the Yosemite Valley, the worldwide focal point of elite climbing in the 1970s, by making terrifying ascents of spectacular rock formations like El Capitan.
To critics, Bachar cut a stubborn, self-righteous figure, uncompromising on matters of daring style and minimal gear. To admirers, he represented the vanishing purity of a simpler age, a time when rocks and mountains were to be ascended only from the ground up, without advance rigging. For about half a decade at his prime, Bachar enjoyed a reputation comparable only to that of Royal Robbins in the 1950s.
“Since Bachar, I don’t think there was anybody you could say was the greatest, most influential climber in the world in his time, ” said Pete Mortimer, a well-known climber based in Boulder, Colo.
In other words, Bachar was a fool like all climbers, but even more so when he went with as little gear as possible.
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