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ALAN DEMEURERS RECALLS IT VIVIDLY AS ONE BRIGHT moment in a succession of dark days. "I remember exactly where we were sitting," he says. His wife Christine had by then been found to have metastatic breast cancer and believed her only hope was to undergo a costly new kind of therapy that involves the harvest and retransplant of her own bone marrow--high-wire medicine occupying what one of her physicians calls "the twilight zone between promising and unproven treatments...
When Dr. Glaspy met Christy for the first time on June 25, 1993, he found a woman in reasonably good physical shape, except for the fact that she was dying of breast cancer. The deMeurerses, in turn, saw Dr. Glaspy as warm, confident and low key, and--unlike Dr. McMillan at Scripps--open with information...
...formal dinner in Boulder, Colorado; friends and colleagues arranged a school talent show. The deMeurerses' daughter Michelle, then eight years old, took a piece of loose-leaf paper and with shaky precision wrote her own advertisement for a yard sale. The sign said, MONEY GOES TO A MOTHER WITH BREAST CANCER...
...have become more versatile because of the nature of college swimming," Koerckel adds. "I swim different events for different meets. This season I have started racing the breast stroke. I had never done that before, but with the dynamics of the team...
...across the country, playing competitively until the late 1980's. Known earlier in his career as New York Fats, he changed his name to Minnesota after Jackie Gleason's Minnesota Fats character in the 1960 movie "The Hustler." Fats was a consummate showman who stuffed $100 bills in the breast pocket of his suits when he played. His exact age was unknown. Friends say he was born January 19, 1900, but a 1966 biography placed his birthdate on January 19, 1913. Fats himself always declined to clarify, once telling a reporter: "No one on this Earth knows...