Disease-Related Deaths in the United States - Cancer Deaths in the United States, Cardiovascular Disease Deaths in the United States (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: Cancer deaths in the United States, Cardiovascular disease deaths in the United States, Infectious disease deaths in the United States, Neurological disease deaths in the United States, L. Ron Hubbard, James G. Blaine, Fritz Leiber, Fawn M. Brodie, Chris Gulker, Samuel T. Cohen, Benjamin Ruggiero, Karen Tuttle, Clive Charles, James F. Wilson, Arnold Kramish, Hank Raymonds, Zerelda James, Charlotte MacLeod, Lee Eyerly, McHenry Boatwright, Glenn Canfield, Jr., Albert Whitlock, Dorothy Kenyon, Sam McQuagg, John Craven, John D. Goeken, Chris Kreski, Roy Axe, James C. Tyree, Gene Scott, Wayne Twitchell, James Lopez Watson, Rhys Isaac, Connie Saylor. Excerpt: Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 - January 24, 1986), better known as L. Ron Hubbard (and often referred to by his initials, LRH), was an American pulp fiction author and religious leader who founded the Church of Scientology. After establishing a career as a writer, becoming best known for his science fiction and fantasy stories, he developed a self-help system called Dianetics which was first published in 1950. He subsequently developed his ideas into a wide-ranging set of doctrines and rituals as part of a new religious movement that he called Scientology. His writings became the guiding texts for the Church of Scientology and a number of affiliated organizations that address such diverse topics as business administration, literacy and drug rehabilitation. Although many aspects of Hubbard's life story are disputed, there is general agreement about its basic outline. Born in Tilden, Nebraska, he spent much of his childhood in Helena, Montana. He traveled in Asia and the South Pacific in the late 1920s after his father, an officer in the United States Navy, was posted to a U.S. naval base on Guam. He attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C. ...