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...honoree at the event--Rangers outfielderJohn Calengosi--offered some words of advice forhis audience, a majority of which was comprisedLatino youths from the Caballeros de Colon, a RedSox rookie league in Jamaica Plains...
These programs range form lecture-visits and student-discussion/meetings with such Foundation guests as United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, author James Baldwin, Cherokee Chief Wilma Mankiller, Governor of Puerto Rico Raphael Hernandez-Colon, National Science Foundation Head Walter Massey, Northern Ireland leader John Hume, Berkeley Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien, U.S. Surgeon General Antonia Novello, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, scholar-athlete Arthur Ashe (to name a few), to panel discussions, films and debates on every conceivable aspect of race relations...
According to University officials, Conrad Taff died of colon cancer which he believed was caused by a nutritionally imbalanced diet...
Beta carotene may prove powerful in combatting cancer as well. In countries such as Japan and Norway, where diets are rich in beta carotene, the populations have a low incidence of lung, colon, prostate, cervical and breast cancer. And a study at the University of Arizona Cancer Center found that three to six months of daily beta carotene pills dramatically reduced precancerous mouth lesions in 70% of patients. Pharmaceutical giant Hoffmann- La Roche is so enamored with beta carotene that it plans to open a Freeport, Texas, plant next year that will churn out 350 tons of the nutrient annually...
...joined in his efforts by phytochemist Eloy Rodriguez of University of California, Irvine, who analyzed the chemical composition of the leaves. Rodriguez told the AASA that the oil found in one plant, a relative of the sunflower, has also been shown to be effective against breast, lung and colon cancer tumors...