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House of Games proves that there's a lot less difference between the so-called normal people and criminals than we would like to think. Mamet's deadpan presentation of evil is bone-chilling. And as Mike tells Margaret, you may "learn some things about yourself you'd rather not know...
...Cozza has other things on his mind. The Elis had been practicing on a wet, snowy field in preparation for play on an icy, muddy Yale Bowl field. But the field was dry as a bone yesterday, with 100,000 square feet of new sod on the ground...
...didn't order the new grass," said Cozza. "And the soil is dry, well, as a bone...
...introduced into their bodies. Here the irradiation was both incorporated and local." Leide das Neves Ferreira, 6, who had eaten a cesium-tainted sandwich, continued to emit 25 rads a day, even after repeated efforts at decontamination. At that rate, the radioactivity in her body was destroying her bone marrow before it could produce white blood cells...
...result, the doctors decided to try an untested therapy on Leide and five other patients who were likely to die. With Gale's guidance, they attempted to revitalize the irradiated bone marrow. GM-CSF, or granulocyte- macrophage colony-stimulating factor, is one of at least five hormones that boost the production of white blood cells in the marrow. In cancer patients, CSFs seem to offset the deleterious effects of radiation and chemotherapy on the marrow, thus making larger doses safer to use. Gale wondered if the hormones would work the same magic on people who had been accidentally irradiated...