USATODAY.com – Milder skin cancers becoming more common among young Years ago we saw a Second City Comedy performance that included a musical sketch where the chorus went “It’s…the…CANCER. ItstheCANCER.” It was performed by people made up to be stereotypical “Chicago old people” of various backgrounds… but everybody had a comic Yiddish accent. It seemed darkly funny then – even after David’s mom’s diagnosis of breast cancer and her complete recovery, 5 years on. Then Peter Jennings died of lung cancer. And the other day, Christopher Reeve’s wife announced she has lung cancer. A few months back, my priest got…
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Chicago Indymedia: newswire/61312 The local peace-and-justice folks pass along plans for today’s visit by President Bush to the Caterpillar plant in Aurora: “War President? VACATION PRESIDENT!†That’s the main message. Bush tops vacation time of any pres while soldiers die. Be at the at the Caterpillar plant in Aurora, Illinois Wednesday Aug 10th 8:30AM, doors open 9, Bush speaks 11. South on Orchard Road at the intersection of rt30 and Orchard Road in S. Aurora. Main Entrance Caterpillar Drive. Questions: Tetricus at Yahoo dot Com. Or at least, they were organizing it. A link for more information appears to be…