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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This year marked the 30th anniversary of the event, which donates all proceeds to the Jimmy Fund, an organization that supports the fight against cancer...

Author: By Eric S. Barr, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Skaters Dazzle, Amuse in 30th Evening With Champions | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

During the past 30 years, EWC has donated over $2 million to the Jimmy Fund, a program founded in 1948 by the Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute...

Author: By Eric S. Barr, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Skaters Dazzle, Amuse in 30th Evening With Champions | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...Jimmy Fund was born five decades ago, when a 12-year-old cancer patient, known to the world as "Jimmy," asked for a television set to watch baseball games...

Author: By Eric S. Barr, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Skaters Dazzle, Amuse in 30th Evening With Champions | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...abstinence message--rather than telling them to wait but distributing condoms for when they don't--will curb teen pregnancies, decrease the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and make for "sexually healthier" adults. And they warn against a strain of human papilloma virus that is linked to cervical cancer--and is not prevented by condoms. Opponents of abstinence-only education, however, call it "erotophobic" and fear it could prevent kids from learning what they need to know about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Preaching Chastity In the Classroom | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...ashamed of the fact that he is bored with the Gap(tm)-bland banality of his successful life he is forced to pretend that his affliction is something completely different. Hence his addiction to group therapy sessions, where he can pretend that his unhappiness springs from testicular cancer or OCD rather than from the cookie-cutter pointlessness of his life. Carolyn Burnham (Annette Bening) in American Beauty faces the same dilemma: she's wealthy, she has a nice little nuclear family, she likes martinis...of course she should be happy. Just as the narrator in Fight Club spends the entire...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Undoing Yuppiedom | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

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