There’s an old joke: What looks good on a lawyer? The answer: a Rottweiler. But now the breed that has been used in a thousands of other comic punchlines may hold a key to understanding cancer via the study of long-living female Rottweilers:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.