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Outside of the classroom, Hanzich was a respected leader of the College Democrats and the director of Harvard's Relay for Life cancer fundraiser...
...years," jokes Peren, who hails from such quintessentially Kiwi stock--as New Zealanders would call it--that his grandfather even had a breed of sheep named after him. Peren launched the Peregrine Wines label in 1998 in partnership with oenophile oncologist Murray Brennan of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. (Brennan visits for vacations.) Peren's connection with the land that Peregrine has under vine comes through his wife's grandfather, who won a small plot in a card game. The Peren family also has a single-vineyard Pinot Noir called Two Sisters...
While it is true that no cadavers have been labeled killed by DBCP, scientific bodies from the National Academy of Sciences to the World Health Organization have classified dozens of pesticides as powerful animal carcinogens that are likely to cause cancer in humans. Human studies have found that pesticides also cause birth defects in farmworkers, as well as nerve damage and genetic mutations. And the 6 billion lbs. of these poisons we add to the environment each year contaminate our lakes, rivers and lives as well. Al Meyerhoff (Past Director, Natural Resources Defense Council Public Health Program), STUDIO CITY, CALIF...
...perpetrator of cleverly icky films - Shivers, Rabid, The Brood - that found an adult outlet for the fears at the root of the horror genre. His 1986 remake of The Fly still stands as an eloquent treatise on man's determination to cope with a degenerative disease: cancer, AIDS or, in this case, a slavering, 6ft.-tall insect...
Amount the American Cancer Society will devote to advertising that highlights the health risks of inadequate health-care coverage in 2007. In the past the group has focused on narrower cancer-related issues like colorectal screening and smoking...