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Even as I acknowledge the importance of business to baseball, I know that for some fans, the business won’t matter as long as the park itself endures. For nostalgia follows the excitement of childhood and endures thanks to a building that only leaves traces of its most cherished legends on the retired numbers façade. Robert T. Hamlin ’10 is a Crimson sports editor in Mather House...
...children become a part of our emotional fabric, and regarding Harry Potter, we have grown as he has grown—almost in real time. The fabric stretches and becomes a security blanket for older readers, who are able to return to the series and recapture some of that childhood warmth...
...long-term complications that might arise from the powerful poisons they were throwing at their young patients. They simply didn't have to; at best, only half of those children were expected to see their teens. But today, 1 in 1,000 young adults in the U.S. is a childhood-cancer survivor. Since the 1970s, the chance that a child would live for five years after a diagnosis of leukemia or lymphoma, the most common childhood cancers, has risen steadily, from an average of 25% to more than 80% today, outpacing recovery rates for most adult cancers...
...like any victims of trauma or shock, these youngsters never quite shake the mental and medical legacy of their early illness. They know their victory comes at a price, and science won't let them forget. With every new study of childhood-cancer survivors, evidence of the lingering health dangers from their treatments--heart disease, secondary cancers, cognitive deficits--continues to mount. "Some- times I feel like a walking time bomb," says Dyer...
...yearly checkup by an internist or a general practitioner is crucial to maintain such vigilance. But despite the advice of their cancer doctors, only 20% of childhood-cancer survivors take advantage of this simple precaution, according to the latest figures from the NCI study. That's why these doctors are aggressively seeking out survivors, many of whom are now reaching their 30s and 40s, when many chronic conditions tend to strike. "We need to stop cataloging what happens to these patients and start introducing therapies that will either combat or prevent any long-term health effects of their cancer treatment...