Of course I also played my worst, it was as if I was just playing against myself.”Right now I’m struggling a little against myself and I’m losing a few matches I just hope a change comes quickly. Mentally I’m not as strong as I used to be.”This US$1.3 million event is a key clay–court tuneup for the French Open, which begins May 26.American qualifier Ashley Harkleroad got beaten by French veteran Nathalie Dechy 1–6, 6–3, 6–2. Harkleroad has seen her ranking jump 200 points in little more than a year following her semifinal run in Charleston, South Carolina last month. She is now ranked 57th.After storming through the first set, Harkleroad lost her serve midway through the middle frame before getting broken three times in the final set. The 24th–ranked Dechy held at love and watched as Harkleroad’s backhand sailed long on match point.Playing alongside Harkleroad and Dechy on Foro Italico’s outside courts were two more Americans. Chicago native Laura Granville eliminated 15th–seeded Arizona resident Meghann Shaughnessy 7–5, 6–3.The first seeds to advance were South Africa’s Amanda Coetzer (No 14), who rallied past Iroda Tulyaganova of Uzbekistan 2–6, 6–3, 6–0; and Israel’s Anna Pistolesi (No 16), who swept aside Elena Tatarkova of the Ukraine 6–0, 6–4.Top–seed and defending champion Serena Williams has a first–round bye and does not play until Tuesday..
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Cancer has overtaken heart disease for the first time to become the single biggest killer of men in the UK, figures published yesterday suggested. Experts said that although men had responded to messages about heart disease prevention, they were still failing to heed the warnings on cancer.Obesity is now becoming a significant cause of cancer in men – one in five men is now classed as overweight, and one in 10 cancers is linked to it. In 2001, the most recent year for which figures are available, 79,781 men died from cancer and 79,466 from heart disease.Better and quicker treatment of heart attacks and the emergence of new drugs have contributed to the success in reducing heart disease deaths. But the reluctance of men to see a doctor and the slow process of developing new drugs are hampering efforts to make the same inroads with cancer.The results were released by the charity Cancer Research UK as it launched a month-long campaign to raise awareness.Rates of oesophageal cancer have increased by 8 per cent in the past 10 years. It is now the fourth most common cancer in men, after cancers of the lung, bowel and prostate.Professor Nick Day, chairman of Cancer Research UK’s committee on cancer prevention, said: “Oesophageal cancer is related to drinking and obesity, and if two things have been getting worse in recent years, it is these.”. The widow of a mentally ill man whose brain was removed without her consent after his suicide described her three-year battle to find the truth yesterday as a report revealed that tens of thousands of brains had been taken without the knowledge of relatives for research and teaching since the 1960s. I have had to fight so hard to get this whole situation recognised.
Our rights have been taken away, my husband’s and thousands of others, it seems.”The Isaacs report, by Jeremy Metters, her majesty’s inspector of anatomy, found that of the 30,000 brains that remained in storage, more than 20,000 were retained without consent.The inquiry was triggered by Mrs Isaacs’ chance discovery in April 2000, 13 years after Cyril Isaacs’ suicide, that his brain had been kept by Manchester University. A system was set up to supply brains from mortuaries for a research programme led by Professor Bill Deakin and doctors Alan Cross and Paul Slater.Bryan North, a solicitor and the coroner for North Manchester, allegedly helped to tip off the doctors when a brain was available They would arrange to have it collected. The mortician at the North Manchester General Hospital was paid a £10 tip per brain.Between 1985 and 1997, 311 brains were collected for the programme, of which 225 came from coroners’ cases, including Mr Isaacs’. Dr Metters said that under the Human Tissue Act 1961, coroners could do post-mortem examinations to establish the cause of death but must obtain relatives’ consent to retain the organs.”The relatives were not told and consent was not asked,” he said.
