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...against the Lions…Brown announced the establishment of the Lawrence Rubida Trust during a halftime ceremony. With cancer survivor and former Buffalo Bills coach Marv Levy in attendance, Rubida—an offensive lineman and tri-captain who suffers from Ewing’s Sarcoma, a rare and aggressive bone cancer—was presented with a check by Brown coach Phil Estes that will defray the costs of his treatment and fund future research of the disease…Sophomore running back Clifton Dawson extended his streak of consecutive games with at least 100 yards rushing...
DIED. ROBERT URICH, 55, ruggedly handsome TV-series stalwart; of synovial-cell sarcoma, a rare cancer of the body's joints that the optimistic Urich lectured about regularly in an effort to educate and to raise money for fighting the disease; in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Much loved as private eye Dan Tanna in the late-'70s drama Vega$ and as a Boston detective in Spenser: For Hire, Urich also appeared in the '70s sitcom Soap, the film Turk 182!, the Emmy Award-winning mini-series Lonesome Dove and, in 1998, as the ship's captain in a revived version...
...known for his conservative and often dissenting opinions, ruling on landmark decisions such as Miranda v. Arizona and Roe v. Wade. DIED. ROBERT URICH, 55, Emmy Award-winning actor best known for his starring roles in the television detective sagas Vega$ and Spenser: For Hire, of synovial cell sarcoma, a rare form of cancer that attacks the body's joints; in Thousand Oaks, California. DIED. RUTH FERTEL, 75, self-made success and founder of the international chain Ruth's Chris Steak House; in New Orleans. Fertel got her start in 1965 when she mortgaged her house to purchase a local...
...signaling-inhibitor drug that he helped develop, is being studied as a potential treatment for colorectal and lung cancers as well as aids-related Kaposi's Sarcoma. Ullrich's U3 will attempt to identify more communication molecules that can be targeted in the war against cancer...
There are many reasons young gay men are having unprotected sex, but I think the most pertinent is that we've never had to visit a friend in the hospital disfigured by Kaposi's sarcoma. Like many other gay men around my age (30), I have never known anyone who was ill with AIDS. The last time I was in the hospital was when I had my tonsils out. If I had been born 10 years earlier, I probably would know the names of the admitting nurses at New York City's St. Vincent's hospital...