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Keywords: Brain Cancer

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Interviewing Peter Steele for America Magazine
- Jim McDermott
- 04 July 2012
About four years ago I had the great pleasure to spend four days with Peter Steele while he was at Georgetown. Hearing that he had died, I went back to those interviews, hours and hours we spent on things like the first time he read Billy Collins, growing up in Perth, unexpected blessings, and the never-ending catalogue of characters and words that fascinated and delighted him.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

When kids and cancer is a laughing matter
- Tim Kroenert
- 31 May 2012
Sleepless parents, on the eve of their child's surgery for a brain tumour, confess their fears to each other: that he will die, or acquire a disability. But they turn this, too, into a game. Far from making light of the situation, they find, in humour, genuine solace from genuine fear.
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AUSTRALIA

Best of 2009: Breastfeeding is not obscene
- Catherine Marshall
- 11 January 2010
9 Comments
Whether grotesquely augmented, stricken with cancer or tumbling unbidden from the frocks of soccer wives, breasts guarantee rapt attention. But never are these appendages more hotly debated than when they are being used according to their very purpose and design. October 2009
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AUSTRALIA

Breastfeeding is not obscene
- Catherine Marshall
- 19 October 2009
20 Comments
Whether grotesquely augmented, stricken with cancer or tumbling unbidden from the frocks of soccer wives, breasts guarantee rapt attention. But never are these appendages more hotly debated than when they are being used according to their very purpose and design.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

How Ted Kennedy changed the world
- Michael Sean Winters
- 28 August 2009
1 Comment
The final gift of Ted Kennedy to the nation was to pass the torch of liberalism to Barack Obama. It was breathtaking to see this Irish Catholic embrace a black man as his political heir.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Daughter of the disappeared
- Gillian Bouras
- 10 June 2009
5 Comments
Malign influences seeped into the cracks that brain damage had caused, and in his mind flowered into poisonous paranoia. I found myself facing a most complicated bereavement: mourning the living is often worse than mourning the dead.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

On not beating cancer
- Brian Doyle
- 04 February 2009
13 Comments
A nun once said cancer is a dance partner you don't like, but with whom you have to dance, and either you die or the cancer fades into the darkness at the other end of the ballroom. The words we use about cancers and wars matter more than we know.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

'Freaks' on film
- Tim Kroenert
- 04 September 2008
1 Comment
In 1932, Todd Browning's Freaks sought to unsettle with the 'otherness' of its circus sideshow performer characters. A modern-day festival of films by and about people with disability emhasises not otherness, but humanity.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Saddam's neck
- Various
- 01 July 2008
the noose .. in a loop around his neck .. in a loop on CNN .. over and over again
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AUSTRALIA

Graphic smoke packs a shock to the system
- Alice Bergin
- 24 July 2006
The Federal Government is seeking to scare the smoking public with the replacement of tamer text warnings with a range of photographs depicting cases of lung disease, tongue cancers and even a dissected brain.
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ENVIRONMENT

Mind and matter
- Tim Thwaites
- 26 June 2006
Archimedes’ interest was sparked by recent studies linking behaviour with physical changes in the human body.
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AUSTRALIA

Bearing witness
- Kirsty Sangster
- 08 May 2006
Kirsty Sangster looks at the effectiveness of truth commissions.
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Keywords: Brain Cancer