Word: leukemia
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...suicide. Utterly authentic and at ease with viewers, the veteran journalist made a huge hit of Tomorrow, which followed Johnny Carson's Tonight Show--and in doing so laid the groundwork for future late-night stars like David Letterman and Conan O'Brien. Snyder was 71 and had leukemia...
...Equally indelible was the Minority Coaching Fellowship Program, started by Walsh in 1987, that helped launch Tyrone Willingham of the University of Washington and the Cincinnati Bengals' Marvin Lewis. Walsh, whom Joe Montana called "the most influential person in my life" aside from his dad, found out he had leukemia two years...
...have to; at best, only half of those children were expected to see their teens. But today, 1 in 1,000 young adults in the U.S. is a childhood-cancer survivor. Since the 1970s, the chance that a child would live for five years after a diagnosis of leukemia or lymphoma, the most common childhood cancers, has risen steadily, from an average of 25% to more than 80% today, outpacing recovery rates for most adult cancers...
...some obvious things in common. More surprisingly, so did Campbell and Bush: a passion for running, and perhaps also the wordless empathy of the man's man, fueled on testosterone - both were once heavy drinkers, both now abjure the bottle. Campbell regularly enters competitive races to raise money for leukemia research (his best friend and his best friend's daughter died of the disease). One check he keeps as a souvenir came from Bush. The two men were sitting in a room in Northern Ireland between set-piece public occasions when the President spotted a newspaper article Campbell had written...
...successor. More surprisingly, the chippy Campbell found common ground with President Bush: a passion for running, and perhaps also the wordless empathy of the man's man, fuelled on testosterone. Both were once heavy drinkers, both now abjure the bottle. Campbell regularly enters competitive races to raise money for leukemia research (his best friend and his best friend's daughter died of the disease). One check he keeps as a souvenir came from Bush. The two men were sitting in a room in Northern Ireland between set-piece public occasions when the President spotted a newspaper article Campbell had written...