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...playing Houston, and this lady came up on stage and sang with me, as sometimes happens. She was crying. And I said, 'Are you hurt? What's wrong?' And she replied: 'I'm crying for joy. I was diagnosed with breast cancer a few years ago and my sister brought your music to play me. And I hung on to your music all through my illness. Now I'm in remission. I'm safe.'" Kidjo exhales in wonder. "I mean, what more proof do you need...
While Emily is not the first Hughes to attend Harvard—her sister, Rebecca graduated from the College in 1999—the Hughes’ allegiances are spread across the Ivy League. Both of her parents as well as her brother attended Cornell. Sister and 2002 Olympic gold medalist Sarah is currently enrolled at Yale College...
...alternative uses for tobacco, working in a biotechnology lab that summer and arriving at the discovery that “the tobacco plant is very helpful for developing a vaccine for one type of HIV.” On a 2004 summer trip to India, Pasricha worked with her sister Sarina, who had graduated from the College that year, to develop the Global Youth Health, Education, and Leadership Program, or HELP. With funding from Tobacco-Free Kids, a non-profit organization, Pasricha said that she created the program to improve Indian female education and youth health awareness about the perils...
...five tournaments. Her mother Oracene Price admits that tennis started to bore her daughter, so Serena felt free to pursue some outside interests, like acting (she appeared in an ER episode). Plus, a nagging knee injury stripped some motivation. "Serena is definitely the baby in our family," says Williams' sister Isha of her youngest sib. "She has a little of that 'Woe is me' going on. Like, 'Oh, my God, why am I always injured? Why is the press picking...
Most critics didn't realize Williams was also fighting depression. In 2003 an alleged gang member gunned down her eldest sister Yetunde in Compton, Calif. Tennis kept her from grieving, but the layoff gave her room to cope. "Being around [Yetunde's] kids every day, it's really kind of"-- long pause--"hard," she says. "No amount of time can let you truly get over that...