Susan Brown, a friend of Whittington's who has led a support campaign in Australia, says he is well.
Ms. Mosikare, who leads a support group for victims, said they expected more money from the government as an acknowledgment of their suffering.
Such robust enthusiasm, not to say pressure, is still the exception, said Ann McHugh, who leads a support group called Lesbians Considering Motherhood in Manhattan.
Yet two years later he helped lead a widely supported military intervention during Libya's civil war.
"We have politicians to lunch, we talk to them, they give us stories, if they lead a campaign we support, we give them credit.
Mr. Gould, 29, leads a computer support team at Concord Communications, a software company in Marlboro, Mass.
Ms. Braiotta and her teacher began by reading simple medical brochures, which led to a support group, which led Ms. Braiotta to discover that her condition had been curable all along.
"The town needed the money," said Katsumi Inoue, 67, who led a movement supporting the plant.
Vice President Dick Cheney met recently with leaders of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International, which leads a coalition supporting embryonic stem cell research.
The University of California, Davis, led a National Science Foundation NSFF) supported effort to design, print and validate 22K and 45K oligonucleotide arrays based on gene model predictions from TIGR's osa1 version 3.0 release.
