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His show business clientele included rock musician Alice Cooper and actors Richard Harris and Rod Steiger.He was best known, however, for his treatment of Wilson, the troubled founding member of the iconic California surf band.Wilson's wife hired Landy in 1975 at a time when the musician had withdrawn socially to an alarming degree.

Landy took control of Wilson's life, constantly monitoring him to keep him away from drugs and junk food.Under Landy's care, Wilson's physical and mental health improved enough that he performed at the Beach Boys' 15th anniversary concert on New Year's Eve 1976.

Despite his success, Landy was fired around that time by the band's manager, largely over a fee dispute.Six years later, after Wilson had regressed to drugs and obesity, Landy was rehired.

The psychologist said he was paid $35,000 a month for conducting 24-hour therapy from 1983 to 1986.The California Board of Medical Quality Assurance later accused Landy of "grossly negligent conduct," alleging that his business dealings with Wilson had caused the singer "severe emotional damage, psychological dependence and financial exploitation."Landy denied the charges and Wilson defended him, attributing his new solo career to Landy's therapy.

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Landy saved my life," Wilson said in a statement at the tim...

If they had included heavier pickups like the Ford F-350 and Chevrolet Silverado 3500, NHTSA could have saved four times as much as they did from including MDPVs.

"If NHTSA can help Hummer H2 owners save a few cents on gasoline, they could have helped farmers, small businesses and other consumers who rely on heavy pickups," said MacKenzie.

The standards announced by NHTSA today were set at effectively the same level as they proposed last August when they relied on gasoline prices that were a dollar less than what we are paying today.

This is especially surprising since NHTSA replaced that faulty data with a still modest gasoline price of about $2 per gallon.

With higher gasoline prices, NHTSA's own methodology should have led to a significantly higher standard.

"Despite two hurricanes, a pledge to end our oil addiction, and higher gasoline prices, NHTSA failed to strengthen the standard any further than their last proposal," said Friedman.

"If this is how our nation is going to get serious about our oil addiction, A...

"Delays for whatever reason should be avoided."Dr.

De Ruysscher of University Hospital Maastricht, The Netherlands and colleagues note that without treatment, tumor progression in SCLC is rapid and median survival may be as low as 2 months.To examine treatment factors that influence survival, the researchers conducted a meta-analysis of 4 phase III trials involving more than 1000 patients for whom 5-year survival data were available.

Patients received chest radiotherapy and platinum-based chemotherapy.The timing of chest radiation and the start of any treatment until the end of chest radiotherapy (SER) was the most important predictor of outcome.

There was a significantly higher 5-year survival in patients in the shorter SER arms of the studies (relative risk 0.62).Five-year survival was more than 20% when the SER was less than 30 days.

However, the researchers calculated that each week of extension of the SER beyond that in the study arm with the shortest SER, caused an absolute decrease of 1.83% in 5-year survival.The novel parameter SER, "which takes into account accelerated proliferation of tumor clonogens during both radiotherapy ...