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...event, hosted by former Olympic gold medalists Dick Button and Peggy Fleming, a cancer survivor, donates proceeds to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Jimmy Fund, which supports the fight against cancer...
...Evening with Champions was founded in 1970 by John M. Petkevich ’71, who would later become a national figure skating champion. Upon seeing the bedridden patients in the children’s cancer ward at Harvard affiliate Children’s Hospital Boston, Petkevich was inspired to make a difference...
Petkevich came up with the idea of a charity ice skating show, which would bring together an impressive roster of skaters and benefit cancer research...
What: An Evening with Champions was founded in 1970 by former U.S. champion John Misha Petkevich. Since then it has been run entirely by Harvard University students, raising more than $2.4 million for the Jimmy Fund, which supports adult and pediatric cancer research and care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Paul Wylie, the 1992 Olympic silver medalist and class of 1990 Harvard graduate, will host the show, which will feature National Silver Medalist and Olympian Emily Hughes and 1984 Olympic champion Scott Hamilton, among others...
Therefore, in the abstract, it appears that marijuana is an overall safer drug. There have been no recorded deaths from cannabis overdose, and the potentially lethal dose of marijuana is over a thousand times the effective dose. There is also no link between lung cancer and chronic marijuana use, according to a study done at UCLA in 2006, yet unhealthy alcohol consumption is known to have very detrimental effects on the liver...