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...strikes 130,000 men and women each year in the U.S., according to the American Cancer Society. Although it's more common after the age of 50, younger people are also affected. Over the next 12 months, more than 55,000 Americans--a quarter of them under 50--will die of the disease, making it the second leading cause of death due to cancer, after lung cancer...
...doesn't have to be this way. "This is a disease almost no one needs to die from," says Carolyn Aldige, president of the Cancer Research Foundation of America. Provided it's caught in its earliest, most treatable stages, colorectal cancer is curable more than 90% of the time. If more people underwent routine screening to find small tumors, experts estimate, the death toll would drop 50% to 75%, saving around 30,000 to 40,000 lives a year...
...science should die the death of bad science," he said. "My hope is that having put them in their place, everyone will put [the debate] away and will go home," Berry said...
...stamp machines will replace slot machines in Vegas. Communist banners will go up as Confederate flags go down in South Carolina and dogs will be banned for life from front yards in California. New Hampshire convicts will stamp "Mao was Right, We Were Wrong" instead of "Live Free or Die" on state license plates and Oregon students will wear USPS uniforms to school, carry books from class to class in mail sacks and call for a ride home from thirty-three cent pay phones. Only a scattered band of resistors will remain of the once-mighty...
...other school shootings in Oregon and Alabama cry out for introspection that should end in action, not argument. Children in the United States are nine times more likely to be killed by gunfire than what the combined probability is in the next top 25 industrial nations. Thirteen American children die in gun-related incidents daily. It is time to take decisive steps to curb this trend before more of our children are caught in the crossfire...