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...Talent really wants to draw attention to the risk of breast cancer. When the U.S. Park Service told him in 2004 that he couldn't illuminate St. Louis's famous Gateway Arch with pink floodlights to highlight breast cancer awareness month because the rangers feared it would create a precedent for other national monuments, Talent passed a Senate bill authorizing him to do so. Earlier this month, Laura Bush flew in from Washington to flip the switch on the pink lights. Talent told onlookers, "Soon we will be able to find a cure to this life-threatening disease that affects...
...Talent's breast cancer awareness effort is personal and heartfelt: his mother died of the disease in 1988. But like everything a candidate does in campaign season, the pink arch event was also high-wattage politics - part of a massive push by the first-term incumbent Senator to woo nearly two million other women: those registered to vote in Missouri. Talent did an Arbor Day event and a $300,000 fundraiser with the First Lady the same day. He has a dedicated campaign arm called "Women for Talent" that has held nine events since July. His top pollster, Linda DiVall...
After her $750,000 grant was jeopardized by a delay in the government’s approval of her green card, a breast cancer researcher at Harvard last week passed through the security clearance stage, bringing her a step closer toward continuing her work funded by the National Institutes of Health...
...jail for aiding terrorism by relaying messages from her client Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman--who is serving a life term for plotting to blow up New York City landmarks--to his militant allies; in New York City. Prosecutors had sought a 30-year term. Stewart, who is battling breast cancer, said the ruling was a "great victory against an overreaching government...
...morning after my tumor diagnosis, Karl was among the first people to call. "I know what you are going through," he said. "I've spent more days and nights of my life than I can count in a cancer ward." He explained that his wife was a double breast-cancer survivor, encouraged me for the fight ahead, and offered any assistance I needed. Now, less than two months later, I was standing in front of the President exposing an ugly truth that Karl would rather not have discussed: after two years in office, we had actually spent less than...