She Found A Cure For Cancer–Where’s Her Parade

When Presidents, beauty queens, and just normal schmoes like me are asked for their biggest wish, one of the top answers–right up there with “world peace,” and “no more hunger,” is “a cure for cancer.”
Pretty much everybody knows someone who’s either lost their life or struggled through horrible treatments for cancer, so you’d think that if someone found a cure that seems like it really could save lives, there’d be like, a national holiday, or a whole edition of the newspaper dedicated to them or something. Apparently, that’s not the case.

Angela, above, deserves a PAR-TAY!

A few weeks ago, 17-year-old Angela Zhang unveiled an insanely amazing breakthrough–a revolutionary new way of treating cancer without making people sick in the process. Sounds like something out of a futuristic sci-fi book, but it’s real–Angela came up with the idea, built it, tested it and (according to all the experiments that have been done by her and other experts) found out that it works! Yes, there is a lot more testing that needs to happen before it can be used to treat people, but it’s still the most promising advance I’ve ever heard of.So, why was it that when I told my sister, my friends, and my boyfriend about her, nobody had heard of her at all? Maybe because when you search under Angela’s name on the New York Times website, not a single story comes up. She should be on the front page, and they never even wrote about her! Same thing with USA Today and cnn.com.
What gives? If Angela were say, some dude named Arnold, and instead of being 17, she was 47, everybody would be all over this. But because she’s a girl and still in high school, the only real major media she’s gotten is a small video clip by CBS News that highlights not only her brilliance but her love of shoes