Erin Brockovich was the keynote speaker at the sixth Annual Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) \”Women of Action\” luncheon, which took place Aug. 8 at the Beverly Hilton.
>I long for the day when the editor of any mainstream Palestinian or Islamic publication feels both the need and the license to chastise his readership as Rob Eshman did (\”The Other Sides,\” Aug. 3) by asserting, \”It\’s time for Jewish leaders and organizations to stop oversimplifying the complex equation that must eventually work itself out in the Middle East.\”
It\’s seven months since my lung cancer diagnosis. Am I a survivor yet?
No matter how well things go in chemotherapy, the truth is, cancer always makes new demands on you. You can\’t afford to be a k\’nocker, pretending you know what you\’re doing or what you\’re ready for. It\’s not as if you are in charge.
How dare I have fun during chemotherapy? It\’s not that I look forward to seven hours of treatment. But with four of six rounds behind me, I no longer feel I\’m heading into an abyss.
Bob Dole. General Norman Schwarzkopf. Harry Belafonte. Robert Goulet. The willingness of such well-known figures to make public their battle with prostate cancer has brought visibility to an issue that until the last few years, lacked the attention, funding and research interest befitting a disease that will strike more than 180,000 men in the United States this year.
In an effort to give men facing prostate cancer a true understanding of the emotional and physical trials in store, Leon Prochnik spares no details.
Jim Wayne has cut my hair for more than 20 years. He created first the wedge look and now the clipped curly style of my professional photos.
What right had I to hope? Cancer is an expensive disease, draining huge chunks of time and money, not to mention enthusiasm. To hire the artist Susan Krieg for my doorway project, I had to dig into capital that would have scared me even during my most productive years.
My brother and I are sitting on the kitchen floor cutting pipe. Actually, he\’s cutting and I\’m criticizing. This combines two venerable family traditions.
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