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The Climb of Their Lives

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Mary Ann Castimore, a breast cancer patient whose disease is spreading, attempted to climb to the summit of Mt. McKinley in June 1998, a month that was not kind to climbers. Castimore and other breast cancer patients where turned away near the summit due to bad weather in their attempt to prove that their diseases were not going to dominate their lives.

Author: MacPherson, Myra
Publisher: Time Inc., Health
Publication Name: Health (San Francisco, CA)
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 1059-938X
Year: 1999
Personal narratives, Behavior, Breast cancer, Cancer patients, Mountaineers

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Pros or parents

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Many youth soccer teams are led by volunteer parent coaches who inevitably reach a certain stage when they face the dilemma of whether to hire a paid coach. Reference is made to the qualities to look for when hiring a professional coach and how to go about finding one.

Author: Woog, Dan
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Publication Name: Soccer Jr.
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 1060-9911
Year: 2000
Recruiting, Training, Parents, College sports, Sports for children, Children's sports, Soccer coaches

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Raise hell about hysterectomies

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A call for women to resist unnecessary hysterectomy is presented. Despite publicity about too many operations, rates are still far higher than is justified, it is claimed.

Publisher: Time Inc., Health
Publication Name: Health (San Francisco, CA)
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 1059-938X
Year: 2000
Usage, Prevention, Hysterectomy, Surgery, Unnecessary, Unnecessary surgery

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