The disease made headlines in December, 2005 when a Haitian teen afflicted with the disease, Marlie Casseus, underwent a 17-hour emergency surgical procedure to remove a 7 kg (16 pound) tumour-like growth of bone from her face.
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McCune was named the most outstanding boxer at the 1986 Alabama Sports Festival and was nationally ranked as an amateur boxer.
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McCune appreared as an extra in the 2002 short film Johnny Flynton.
Director Tony Scott had planned to direct a film based on the book and initial reports indicated that Nicole Kidman would star as McCune.
Emma also saved more than 150 war children in Sudan including hiphop artist Emmanuel Jal and is the title subject of his song "Emma McCune" on his 2008 album Warchild.
McCune has been credited with inventing many of the concepts of the modern day live performance, and was one of the very first companies to provide touring sound systems, beginning in 1965 with Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass and progressing to such diversity as Andy Williams, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR) and others.
Miller-McCune magazine was launched in 2008 by Sara Miller McCune, the founder and head of Sage Publications.
McCune attended LeFlore High School in Mobile, Alabama, playing football for coach Ray Parker.
Sara Miller McCune is Executive Chairman of Sage Publications and President of the McCune Foundation.
Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune (April 6, 1913 – January 4, 1993) was an American geographer and brother of George M. McCune.
Shin Ki-ha (Korean Hangul: 신기하, Hanja: 辛基夏, RR: Sin Gi-ha, M-R: Sin Kiha, died on August 6, 1997), was a four-term South Korean lawmaker and former parliamentary leader of National Congress for New Politics.
In an address to middle-schoolers in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Adam McCune traced the inspiration of the Childrule curse (from the end of the book) to Isaiah 3:4 in the Bible.