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■ Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she’s on her way to being

“very well” after radiation treatment for cancer. The 86-year-old justice was speaking Saturday at the Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington. The event came a little over a week after Ginsburg disclosed that she had completed three weeks of outpatient radiation therapy for a cancerous tumor on her pancreas. It was the fourth time since 1999 that Ginsburg has been treated for cancer. In announcing the news, the Supreme Court said in a statement that after the treatment there was “no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body.” Ginsburg was treated for colorectal cancer in 1999, pancreatic cancer in 2009 and had lung cancer surgery in December. Ginsburg has maintained an active schedule. She was working in her chambers in Washington on the afternoon she completed radiation treatment in New York and made good on a scheduled two days of events in Buffalo, N.Y., last week. At a lecture event Tuesday in Arkansas, she will be introduced by former President Bill Clinton, who chose her for the Supreme Court.

■ Duane “Dog” Chapman has had a difficult past year. But following in his wife’s example, he presses on. His wife, Beth Chapman, died in June in Hawaii after fighting lung cancer. Their new television series, Dog’s Most Wanted, airs Wednesday on WGN America. It will not only follow their bounty hunter chronicles as they search for convicts, but also Beth’s journey as she starts chemotherapy and fights cancer. On Beth’s decision to keep working, Chapman says, “it helped her.” He said “she forgot one night. She told me, ‘Honey, I forgot I had cancer today.’ So, it was working where she wasn’t reminded or laying around on the bed or watching television and reminded every few minutes that she had a terminal disease — so, out hunting and being with the family, she forgot about it.” The Chapmans’ bounty hunting operation also includes their children. The family is coping in the wake of Beth’s death. With the series premiere on the horizon, Chapman hopes viewers watch his love story with his wife. “I want them to watch because of me and Beth and my children and my good friends,” he said. “And I want them to see hope and love, and cry.”

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