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...cause of death and any related news articles alongside a picture of the deceased linked to their MySpace.com profile. Because MySpace.com is most popular amongst people college-aged and younger, the deaths are usually tragic (suicides, automobile accidents, and murders) or completely abnormal (a kid killed by a rare cancer, two teens found dead with their heads inside an 8-foot helium balloon). According to the site’s founder, Mike Patterson, there are more than a thousand deceased listed. “It’s supposed to be an eye opening experience,” Patterson says...
...field of medicine has come in his lifetime. “What a great era we’ve lived through,” Foege said. “Could we have imagined that we would have vaccines for so many diseases, including two now for cancer?” The school’s selections of Fauci and Foege were intended to help commemorate Richmond’s recently passed 90th birthday by honoring doctors as committed to children’s health as Richmond is. “These two guys have done an unbelievable amount for kids...
...find typically abandon religion, often never to return, says Justin Taylor, whose theologica.blogspot.com blog mixes theology, culture and politics. "So many youth ministries quickly become irrelevant to teens," he says, "because pastors get kids excited with cool video clips and cutting-edge music, but then when a parent gets cancer and the teenager is lying in bed wondering what life is all about, he or she discovers there's nothing to sustain them...
...cause for concern because of time lags between exposure and a disease’s development. For example, DDT was once a widely used insecticide, then certified as “harmless,” but has now been linked to an increased likelihood of premature birth and cancer...
...Washington found that children on primarily organic diets had pesticide levels six to nine times lower than those on conventional diets. Whether this difference translates into concrete health benefits is still unclear. But, on the nutritional front, studies have shown that certain organic foods outmatch their conventional cousins in cancer-fighting antioxidant and vitamin C content...