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...blame Harvard. Had the pre-med courses been a little bit more difficult, I would have dropped the sequence and wound up a VES major. Right now, I would be preparing for a career in chicken-bone sculpture. My only concern would be decreasing the number of aesthetic dissonances in my life...
...good word. "A glittering shambles/ of enthrallments and futilities," goes one complaint; "a warren of untruth, a propped/ vacuity." Some of her lighter excursions are to Maine, the inspiration of some lovely, limpid nature writing -- about picking blueberries "the color/ of distances, of drowning," or a day of "bone-white splendor,/ a slow surf filleting the blue...
...child's. But should they create a new life to rescue an endangered son or daughter? A Los Angeles couple, Abe and Mary Ayala, has taken just such an unusual step. In April, Mary will give birth to a baby girl who was purposely conceived to serve as a bone-marrow donor for her ailing older sister. Anissa, 17, was found to have a virulent form of leukemia nearly two years ago, and her only hope is a transplant of compatible bone marrow that could allow her to produce healthy white blood cells. Tests indicate that the baby has compatible...
...ethical dilemmas of creating a child donor could have been avoided if a suitable non-sibling donor had been available. Experts urge that more money and public-education efforts be devoted to expanding the national registry of potential bone-marrow donors...
...incomplete and unchallenged story on the front page, giving, in essence, false hope to a lot of people. Even if it worked, it would cost, minimum, $200,000 per patient, and there are very few people they could do it on because it is very hard to match up bone marrow...