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Mary-Claire King, American Cancer Society research professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, was the first researcher to prove that breast cancer is genetically inherited in certain families...
...recipient of the Clowes Award for Basic Research from the American Association for Cancer Research and the Brinker Award from the Komen Foundation, King has served on such committees as the National Commission on Breast Cancer of the President’s Cancer Panel and the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Use of DNA in Forensics. She has worked as a consultant to the Commission on Disappearance of Persons of the Republic of Argentina...
...than their spouses or parents. The author zooms in on 12 dog-human relationships in Montclair, N.J., a prosperous community with a large canine population. In Montclair, pet-human bonds take on a variety of forms: a twice-divorced wife puts her dachshund puppy in diapers; a woman with breast cancer, left by her husband, depends on her corgi for solace; a teenager who has been abandoned by his father abuses his pit bull. Katz, who has two border collies, has nothing against closeness with pets. Indeed, he writes with sensitivity about human relationships with animals. He is just worried...
...people find to defy their oppressors - adults crushing grapes in bathtubs to make wine, teenagers trying to be hip though hip was against the law. She knows you will find these flashes of humanity familiar, even if you have never been forced to wear a veil and beat your breast twice a day in grade school. Satrapi, 33, grew up in Iran during the Islamic revolution, and then the war with Iraq, before her parents sent her to Europe at 14 to save her from the punishment her curiosity attracted in Tehran. She now lives in Paris, and has been...
...realize that heart disease and cancer are competing for the same research dollars, but don't blame breast-cancer-awareness programs for taking women's minds off our cardiac health. If we fear breast cancer more than heart disease, perhaps it is because breast cancer is more likely to strike us in our 30s and 40s, when our careers are in full bloom and we may still have young children. Perhaps it is because breast cancer can be disfiguring, damaging our self-esteem and interfering with our most intimate relationships. Certainly, women are concerned about heart disease, but they...