Celebrating Harlem’s Hip-Hop History
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Topic: Hip Hop
Sort Desciption: But hip-hop, like Harlem, has. undergone such change in the last ... City hip-hop history than what is. reported in the popular press and ...
Content Inside: B rian Fallon, at left, director of the Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) Lyme Disease Research Center, joined Meg Cabot, author of The Princess Diaries; Pat Smith, president of the Lyme Disease Association; Amy Tan, author of the Joy Luck Club; and (seated) Jordan Fisher Smith, park ranger and author of Nature Noir, for Literati with Lyme, a public education effort by well-known authors suffering from Lyme Disease. The authors are dedicated to raising awareness of the disease and funds for the Lyme Disease Research Center at CUMC, the first and only such center in the nation. Tan said that having Lyme Disease feels like you stayed up all night for several nights, ran a marathon and have the flu.The best-sell- ing author suffered these debilitating symp- toms for four years before her doctors thought to test for Lyme—and even then the inaccurate test came up negative. The disease affected her cognitive ability, and all but com- pletely halted her writing career and left her with depression and phobias that kept her from leav- ing the house. Finally, correctly diagnosed with Lyme Disease and treated with antibiotics,Tan is back to skiing and traveling, and most important- ly writing. According to Fallon,Tan’s case is not unusual, as doctors frequently fail to recognize the disease’s symptoms and use outdated and unreliable screen- ing tests. Although the disease is spread by ticks and thought to exist primarily in wooded commu- nities, it is prevalent in Central Park and should be of concern to urban dwellers as well as people liv- ing in the suburbs and country. Each year up to 24,000 new cases of Lyme Disease are reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which estimates that only 10 percent of cases that meet its surveillance criteria are actually reported. By Colin Morris H arlem, a cultural bea- con for black America, can be said to be the cradle of much of the world’s most accessible aesthetics of the last 100 years. ...
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