CNN Hero: Patrice Millet
The businessman from Haiti underwent the procedure in the United States. After nine months of treatment and recovery, his cancer was in remission. Millet returned home in May 2007 determined to start living the life he’d always wanted: helping children from Haiti’s poorest slums have a brighter future.
“Every day you see so many kids in need — so many bad stories, tragic stories,” said Millet, 49. “All my life, I wanted to do something good for my country, for the kids. (So) I said, ‘This is the time.
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Jack Layton didn’t survive his battle with cancer, but in a letter written just before his death, he urged others afflicted with the disease not to give up hope.
In a letter dated Aug. 20, released by his family on the date of his death two days later, he wrote: “To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don’t be discouraged that my own journey hasn’t gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope.
“Treatments and therapies have never been better in the face of this disease.
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Tags: Cancer, Cancer Patients
Many of the debt-reduction plans being considered by Congress and the Administration include proposals that would achieve substantial savings from the Medicare program over time. A side-by-side summary of the proposals allows users to easily compare the key Medicare provisions found in five major debt-reduction plans put forward by the White House, Congress and independent, bipartisan commissions. The five plans are: the Presidents Framework for Shared Prosperity and Shared Fiscal Responsibility; the House Concurrent Budget Resolution; the Senate Gang of Six Proposal; the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (Bowles-Simpson); and the Bipartisan Policy Center Debt Reduction Task Force (Domenici-Rivlin).
The summary also includes brief descriptions of Medicare proposals in other deficit reduction proposals from American Enterprise Institute; Cato Institute; Center for American Progress, Sen.
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Tags: Debtreduction Plans, Plans
Correction appended: June 10 2011
Meteorites don’t always announce their arrival, but the one bearing down on Canada on Jan. 18, 2000, was not shy. Plunging toward the ground in a roaring fireball, it took aim at Lake Tagish in the British Columbia mountains and this being winter smashed itself into fragments on the lake’s icy surface.
It wasn’t until Jan. 25 and 26 that scientists could travel to the site and collect bits of what was once a meteorite measuring perhaps 13 ft. (4 m) across. Those fragments have been kept frozen to preserve any organic compounds that may have been riding aboard the rock when it crashed and are periodically subjected to scientific analysis. Read full post…
A group of middle and high school students just learned that a little summer sweat equity could fight off the fall pounds.
About 100 students from seven Miami-Dade schools took part in a free, six-week Translational Health in Nutrition & Ksinesiology (THINK) program held at the University of Miami. Schools included Coral Gables High, Carver Middle, Kenwood K-8, William H. Turner Technical Arts, Coral Reef High, Ada Merritt K-8 Center and Miami Northwestern.
Working with physiological measuring machines used to analyze college and pro athletes fitness markers including a heated water tank that measures body fat composition the teens learned the principles of nutrition, fitness and exercise physiology.
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Tags: Summer, Summer Fun