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...Fighting to Live After reading that Elizabeth Edwards is living with metastatic breast cancer, I have to warn women that cancer still kills [April 9]. While treatments have improved greatly, without early detection of the first onset or of recurrence, cancer remains deadly. I urge all women to listen to the subtle messages your bodies send. Challenge your doctors, and do not be too afraid or too busy to make an appointment for an examination. Fund-raising commercials and cancer-center advertisements show smiling, apparently healthy patients who seem to have beaten the disease. What Edwards and TV commercials show...
...rusty thirty-somethings practicing in the woods. It’s as if an Opportunes recording were played over a video of a First-Year Outdoor Program excursion—the two just don’t jive. Most of the guys obsess over their ages, and the onset of their mid-life crises becomes the focus of the movie. Meanwhile, their wives and girlfriends form cliques, mock the men, and joke about swapping husbands. In fact, the characters refuse to discuss anything but sex and old age. The racy scenes spiral out of control until...
...cells left on the candidate’s utensil, he carries the gene that causes Huntington’s Disease, a fast-acting, highly degenerative neurological disorder that first appears in the patient’s middle-aged years. Doctors say chances are high that the diseases’ onset will come within the next five years. Under heavy pressure, he withdraws from the race, since there’s a good chance that he’d be unable to complete a term as president...
...life insurance companies might like to see your sequence before they offer you insurance, and they might adjust their prices based on heretofore hidden genetic minefields. Some employers might ask the same—who wants to hire a long-term employee with a genetic predisposition to an early-onset disease? And careful snoopers will likely be able to decode the DNA of anyone they can bring within spitting distance. “Just by sitting there, you shed dandruff and all kinds of stuff everywhere,” Church said. Guarding one’s DNA sequence against...
Student political groups on campus have tirelessly debated the war in Iraq since its onset in 2003, but this week those groups set their contentions aside in a bipartisan drive to collect donations for American troops. The Support Our Troops drive has worked this week to procure donations of money and goods, which will be used to assemble care packages for U.S. troops through the Adopt a Platoon program. The effort, coordinated by the Harvard College Democrats, the Harvard Republican Club (HRC), and the Harvard Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program, was designed to raise awareness...