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...much attention to the long-term complications that might arise from the powerful poisons they were throwing at their young patients. They simply didn't have to; at best, only half of those children were expected to see their teens. But today, 1 in 1,000 young adults in the U.S. is a childhood-cancer survivor. Since the 1970s, the chance that a child would live for five years after a diagnosis of leukemia or lymphoma, the most common childhood cancers, has risen steadily, from an average of 25% to more than 80% today, outpacing recovery rates for most adult...
...doctors are broadening their focus to include the health of not just the child they are treating today but also the adult they could be treating tomorrow. The most extensive study of pediatric-cancer survivors, an ongoing survey by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) that began in 1994, has found they are three times as likely as their cancer-free siblings to have a chronic health condition...
...video games something we should grow out of? Are you still a kid at heart? -Christopher Solis, SAN FRANCISCOI think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults. Nintendo wants to make it easier for people to never grow out of video games...
What did you aspire to as a child, or as a young adult? -Casey Jamieson, Huntington, VermontWhen I first entered Nintendo they weren't even making video games, I joined [the company] thinking that I was going to do product planning. Shortly after, Space Invaders came out and I thought that might be something I might want to do. Actually, when I was younger I wanted to be a puppeteer...
...story, but it was still undeniably success, American-style. Jim Mitchell and his brother Artie (below, left; Jim, right) built a porn empire that included the famous O'Farrell Theatre in San Francisco and requisite rap sheet of obscenity and drug charges. The Mitchells also brought the world such adult-film classics as the 1972 Marilyn Chambers vehicle Beyond the Green Door, a $60,000 flesh romp that admirers would extol (seriously) for its plot, camera angles and musical score. It went on to earn the brothers $30 million on their investment. As Jim once philosophized: "The only...