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Although a survivor might take comfort in a room full of people displaying ribbons, the minimal effort required in wearing one makes its statement hollow, and the lack of meaning has only been exacerbated by the omnipresence of AIDS and breast cancer and a rainbow of other ribbons in the past decade...
FULL FRONTAL Mammograms are notorious both for recording false positives and for not spotting real tumors. Now a study shows that detection can be dramatically improved with one simple step: correctly positioning the breast. The position in the device, it turns out, is even more important than sharpness of the image...
...Roman Catholic Church, especially the American church, has been wounded. There's massive internal bleeding, a hemorrhage of credibility--yet, in the face of all that, a squirming official attitude mixing anguish and evasion. At least Jimmy Swaggart had the good grace to bawl on television and beat his breast and otherwise oblige the audience with the theatrics of repentance. Last week the Pilot, the newspaper of the archdiocese of Boston, did ask several questions that it admitted are "out there in the minds of Catholics"--an interesting phrase, by the way, that suggests some of the problem: a hierarchy...
Walking three days to raise money for breast-cancer research or cycling hundreds of miles for AIDS causes seems like the pinnacle of virtue. And the field of rigorous charity sports events is booming. So why are breast-cancer advocates circulating brochures that ask participants to "think twice before you walk"? And why are AIDS charities embroiled in a nasty legal fight to break ties with one of their most successful fund-raising events, the lucrative California AIDSRide? The charity endurance event--that unassailable, feel-good fund-raising strategy--is beginning to suffer a backlash, as participants and nonprofits question...
Both the AIDS bike rides and the Avon Breast Cancer Walks, which together netted $69 million last year, are produced for charitable causes by a for-profit firm called Pallotta Teamworks. In the 1990s, Pallotta elevated the folksy fund-raising trend to a well-marketed mass movement with glossy brochures and inspirational videos. But that kind of approach is turning off do-gooders like Carol Peeples, 44, a teacher in Salida, Colo., who raised $2,500 for a Pallotta-run Avon Breast Cancer Walk last year. Peeples and other walkers received a coffee-table-book-size color catalog promoting various...