Animal activist Ben White fights cancer.

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Crusader begins fiercest fight yet -- against cancer
Animal activist Ben White never expected a health battle

By M.L. LYKE
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

SAN JUAN ISLAND -- He scaled tall buildings to hang anti-fur banners in New York, cut open Japanese dolphin-holding nets under cover of night, broke into a rundown zoo in Grenada to free monkeys and -- in his least risky and most publicized act -- led an invasion of cardboard turtles at the WTO protest in Seattle.

Ben White, intrepid animal activist, has fought too many battles to keep count.

This new one -- the fight for his own life -- caught him by surprise.

"I feel like my bluff has been called by the Great Spirit," said the Woodstock-Gen rebel during a recent afternoon of thin sun and long memories on the island he now calls home.

A philosophical White juggled stories, images, history, mystery, poetry and humor as he talked about a life spent "pushing the envelope" and "challenging the machine."

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/228730_benwhite16.html

Some good news though...

"Hollywood screenwriters are already at work putting White's story to script. The material is rich, the plots tense, the spirit large."

YES. I hope to see a film!