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A young mother learned early why knowing about breast cancer is important
KIMHaag is not typical. A 30-year-old is supposed to have only a 0.4 percent chance of getting breast cancer anytime in the next 10 years. Tell that to Kim, who was 29 and five months pregnant when she felt a marble-sized lump in the nodes under her right arm. Lumps in breasts aren't all that unusual in pregnancy, her doctor told her. Don't worry. Daughter Skylar was born in February 2003. She's now 4 ½, loves being the center of attention and insists on "the pretty bow" for her hair, though her mother has no idea which bow that is until Skylar leads her upstairs. With her doctor's reassurance and a new baby, Kim thought nothing more of her lump until the October after Skylar's birth. That's when, by chance, she saw a TV program about the path of cancer: "They were describing exactly what I felt under my arm." She did a breast self-exam and found another lump there.
Alfred Peet, 1920-2007: Coffee pioneer influenced America's taste
Alfred Peet, a pioneer in specialty coffee who shared the stage with the Bay Area culinary stars who shaped the region's food-centric reputation, died Wednesday at his home in Ashland, Ore. He was 87. The company he founded, Peet's Coffee & Tea Inc., has more than 150 establishments, all but 22 in California, but the first opened at Walnut and Vine streets in Berkeley in 1966, taking its place in what would become the Gourmet Ghetto. With his emphasis on specialty coffees and unique brewing techniques, Peet, the son of a Dutch roaster, put specialty coffee on the map -- and in the process influenced the founders of Starbucks. "Up until the time he started, in 1966, basic American coffee was swill," said Jim Reynolds, roastmaster emeritus at Peet's.
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