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Valentine reading for your passion
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aren’t “living “liappily ever
after," or bo they tell their
marriage counaelor
Your man might go from
“dud” to “dude" when you
compare him to the rogues’
gallery found in “50
Boyfriends Worse Than
Yoiuib" (Bloomsbury) by
Justin ftacz Tliese guys—
strange, rude, embarrassing
and downri^t dangerous—
are examples cf men that
even the mother most desper
ate for grandchildren would
not want her little giri to
bring home
There’s “Thrifty," recc^niz-
able by his clearan»-rack
khakis and denims from last
year, the 'Man With Cats,”
who will make sure yoiu*
dates will never be ’^ust the
two of you"; and
“Hypochondriac Hal" (look for
the “gas mask and old Y2K
survival kit” in his closet).
Also on the do-not-call list are
“Stalker,’’“Backhanded
Complimenter,” "Comedian”
and “Your Boss.” There are
even two blank pages
reserved for bad-catch No. 51;
“Your Boyfriend.”
“The Men in Your Life:
Timeless Advice and Wisdom
on Managing the Opposite
Sex” (Morrow) by Genevieve
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College author reaches teens
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take when faced with prob
lems the day
“Being that I’m 19, I’m not
tliat far from what I’m writing
alxmt,” she said. “The books
don’t give all of the solutions
and it’s not my goal to preach
Wliile she touclies on the
faith that the characters
have, Hunt wouldn’t call her
Ixxiks Christian fiction. The
Northside Christian Academy
alunmae said her goal with
the series is to help people.
And if the adage is tnie that
“the Lord helps those who
help themselves," Hunt
should find publishing suc
cess. She »ised the profits
from her first book to publish
“Changes ”
Hxmt said she’s meeting
with local bookstores to get
them to carry her books. And
while she writing, being a
publisher and marketing her
woric, she’s also taking a full
load of communications arts
classes at UNCC.
Although the second book
will be released in March,
Hunt still has three more
books to write and tests to
study for.
But she takes it in stride,
saying that her goal is to
show her peers the coolness of
Ixjing part of the arts through
writing.
Copies of “Changes” and her
first book, “A Book of Poetry
for Tbenagers By A TfeenAger”
can be purchased by mail, for
$7,50/per copy throu^ RJoy
& Associates, P.O. Box
26732, CTiariotte, NC 28221.
The ‘N’ word
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racial sliu- worcU Perhaps
that is why many people have
told Ferguson he shouldn't
ask that “how many niggas in
the house?" question.
However, it is a question that
he is willing to ask and one
Uiat he hopes will one day be
eradicated from everyday
usage.
All people need to hear his
message
“It’s like we are psychologi
cally addicted to this word
and we don’t want to leave it
alonel We just don’t want the
responsibility,” he said in a
phone interview “As long as
we fall back on the word
nigga, we don’t have to accept,
any responsibility.
“And people tell me we have
bigger fish to fiy?’
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Colon
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imdergoiie an operation with
chemotherapy or chemother
apy phis radiation.” explains
Dr Bruce Minsky, care of the
authors of the article and
vice-chairman for radiation
oncology and chair of quahty
pn^ams at Memorial Sloan-
Kettering Hospital in New
York- The patients- who
luidergo surgery for colon
cancer have tumors or lymph
nodes that CMitain a timior
The metastatic tumors
around the lymph nodes are
removed, in surgery The
standard of care now is to
give post-operative
chemotherapy, and that’s
called ac^juvant chemothera
py"
At a census conference of
the National Canc«* Institute
in 1990, medical doctors and
researchers agreed that the
standard care for a patient
with cancerous lymph nodes
or Stage HI colon cancer was
to receive chemotherapy after
surgery, ac^juvant chemother
apy The decision was pub
lished later that year but for
tlie next 12 years, black
patients did not receive the
tlierapy to the degree which
they should have,
Minsky and three other
medical colleagues perfcamed
their study on the access to
adjuvant chemotherapy
using the National Cancer
database from hospitals
throughout the United
States. The researchers
looked at 86,000 patients
from 516 hos|itals fir^ 1990,
onwards The goal was to doc
ument how successfully the
standard care recommenda
tions firom the National
Cancer Institute had been fol
lowed based on ethnicity,
race, age and other demo
graphic categories
Despite chemotherapy fol
lowing surgery for Stage III
colon cancer impro%‘es
chances for survival; blacks
were not receiving the thera
py they should have for the
first two-thirds of the study
Still, there is a 4 perc«it dif
ference in the survival rate
even with adjuvant
chemotherapy, between non
blacks and blacks
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