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For Love of the Game, Brothers Attended Different Schools

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The Art of Control: Study Analyzes Impact of Cancer Support Groups

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Yellow Journalism Ever So Colorful

Stop the presses! William Randolph Hearst's legacy is of near-unprintable grandeur

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George Medovoy, JE Feature

William Randolph Hearst ran a newspaper empire in the days when newspapers were king. Today, his creative energy lives on at La Cuesta Encantada -- the Enchanted Hill, his famous castle filled with art and antiques near San Simeon on the Central Coast between Los Angeles and San Francisco, which he shared at the end of his life with longtime...

Health

In the Eye of the Beholder

Local ophthalmic surgeon and a patient offer insight in new exhibit

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Rachel Vigoda , JE Feature

French artist Edgar Degas, at age 36 in 1870, was serving in the National Guard during the Franco-Prussian war when he picked up a rifle, sighted it and realized he couldn't aim because of a blind spot in his right eye. His vision grew worse. Between 1886 and 1905, Degas drew three similar pastels of a woman, titled with variations...

Travel

Eureka! A Mikvah in Siracusa!

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Sharon McDonnell. JE Feature

Boasting Greek ruins better-preserved than in Greece; architecture and savory-and-sweet food that reflect waves of invasions from Arabs, Normans and Spaniards; an endless coastline along a turquoise sea, picturesque towns and untouched nature, Sicily -- the biggest island in the Mediterranean -- is a treasure trove for the discerning traveler.

Fighting Cancer

Becoming the Story

From writing about to living with breast cancer.

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Carol Saline, JE Feature

Some moments in life become embedded in your memory like a freeze frame in a movie. Is there anyone over 55 who doesn't remember exactly where they were when they heard that Kennedy had been shot? For me, one of those indelible moments will always be the phone call telling me I had breast cancer. It came at 5:30 on...

Fighting Cancer

The BRCA Connection

Are Jews more vulnerable to pancreatic cancer?

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Fredda Sacharow, JE Feature

With little prompting, Ruth Berman (not her real name), a teacher from the Philadelphia suburbs, can reel off a dozen names of people she knows -- or knows of -- who have battled pancreatic cancer.