When my friend Jill completed breast cancer treatment in the early 90’s, “cancer” was still whispered cautiously, as if you could somehow catch it by uttering the word. Even saying “breast” was a little avant-garde at the time, unless you were buying poultry.
Thankfully, things have changed. Cancer has hit close to home for me many times in the last ten years — my dad, my mom, extended family, friends. But when I was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer in 2005 shortly after starting at Yahoo!, I didn’t have to whisper about it. Not only was it okay to talk about cancer, there was an international movement to cure it. The pink ribbon had even given the disease its own trademark color.
I stood on the shoulders of those who went before me – the nearly $1 billion in research funding raised by Susan G. Komen for the Cure , Lance Armstrong and the Global Cancer Initiative of his growing Livestrong Army , and the grassroots efforts of my friend Jill and o...
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Hi, my name is Carol and I’m a Flickr addict.
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Winston Churchill said: “We shape our buildings. Thereafter, they shape us”.
On Tuesday, I watched Jerry Yang and his wife Akiko Yamazaki speak in the sunny main atrium of the Yang and Yamazaki Energy and Environment Center at Stanford University. The newly dedicated building will house scholars whose mission is to solve difficult environmental problems. Jerry and Akiko contributed $50 million toward the construction of this state-of-the-art, day lit building that represents the cuttin...
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Feeling the need for speed? Let’s give a birthday cheer and toast to Janet Guthrie for breaking the mold 70 years ago, as the first woman to compete in both the Indianapolis 500 and Daytona 500. And you thought Danica was racy. After you’ve caught your breath, check out our speedy updates.
Everything in one place: Imagine being able to link practically any kind of Web content to your phone (think news feeds, web sites, videos, images, emails, search queries). Yahoo! onePla...
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Can’t live without your 500-thread-count Egyptian cotton sheets? Well, thank Eli Whitney for figuring out a way to remove the seeds from cotton 214 years ago. After you finish thinking about the touch, the feel, read on for what we’ve seeded up this week.
And the nominees are: It’s the final day of nominations for the Yahoo! Video Awards , so get your favorite videos into the line up. We’ve got it all — videos about zombies to Weird Al’s childhood. There are categories fo...
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