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...Hospital in Norfolk by Monday morning. Says Hodges: "I'm impressed by the fact that someone cares and is offering a helping hand." Concurs Harry Kass of Brooklyn, 23, who last April flew on an AT&T company plane from San Francisco to Morristown, N.J., following treatment for bone-marrow cancer: "It enabled me to avoid crowds on a commercial flight when my immune system was weakened by drugs...
...battered child, but only nature is to blame for his condition. He was born with an extremely rare genetic defect that makes him insensitive to pain. His fingers were either crushed or burned because he did not pull his hand away from things that were hot or dangerous. His bones and joints are misshapen because he pounded them too hard when he walked or ran. His knee had ulcerated from crawling over sharp objects that he could not feel. Should he break a bone or dislocate a hip, he would not feel enough to cry out for help...
During ten days in September 1976, David Leroy Washington went on a bone-chilling crime spree across Dade County, Fla., that included torture, kidnaping and three murders. After turning himself in, Washington insisted on confessing to all three murders and pleaded guilty. His lawyer, William Tunkey, opposed the guilty pleas. But then, at the special sentence hearing required in capital cases, Tunkey offered no character witnesses, introduced no expert psychiatric evidence and requested no presentence report that might have been used to mitigate the punishment. Washington was condemned to death, and later appealed, arguing that his Sixth Amendment right...
...this strange; no one seems to be afflicted by a foreboding of doom. The book ends flatly, without the customary distant rumbling of a world's end and with no sense of cautionary exhortation by the author. Any such message-that tribalistic savagery is mankind's eternal, bone-bred evil, perhaps-would be excessive. Appelfeld simply and affectingly bears witness, and in the end, his sole, muted voice is more effective than a choir and louder than a roar...
...book Life and Death on 10 West, Eric Lax ventures to the other side of the consulting room. Working with physicians, Lax explains the complexities of a radical bone-marrow transplant technique that is now proving 50% effective in treating some types of leukemia. The result is a model of medical writing for the layman. The astonishing procedure, used by Dr. Robert Gale and his colleagues at the U.C.L.A. Medical Center, is described with uncommon clarity, as is the ordeal of a young woman whose cancer was obliterated but who later died of another disease. More neutral and less self...