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...been confined to a small, sterile room in Houston for all twelve years of his fragile life. Born without a functioning immune system, David was sealed off from the world's germs, the slightest of which could kill him. Last week, 3½ months after he underwent a bone-marrow transplant intended to fortify his body's defenses, he emerged from his germ-free cocoon. It was, quite literally, a touching moment. For the first time in his life, he was hugged and kissed by his mother. "She was amazed at how thick his hair was," reported...
After the game; victorious Coach Fern Flaman, who said he almost took a dive over the boards after Manchurek's goal, said he thought that the presence of his son Terry-who is dying of bone marrow cancer-and his wife, Jean, inspired the team...
Elevators rarely work. Despite this winter's bone-chilling temperatures, the project's 4,000 residents have had heat only intermittently. Several days before Christmas, one shivering tenant accidentally set her apartment on fire with an electric space heater. She had to wait 31½ weeks for the public housing authority to make repairs. She still is without regular heat. More than a decade ago, dynamite and wrecking balls claimed St. Louis' Pruitt-Igoe, the nation's high-rise symbol of all that was wrong with public housing...
...fact, the disparities were as superficial as a scrim. Both men were driven by adoring, voracious mothers. Both could tell a joke or draw a tear with a melodic or verbal phrase. And both concentrated on what Composer Alec Wilder called "the bone-deep fatigue of urban gaiety." In either case, that last word applied in its ancient and current sense...
...sibling rivalries go, theirs is peaceful. In 1981, when Steve momentarily skied away with the points that would have clinched Phil's first World Cup, their smiles stayed intact. On the last day of the season, Phil prevailed. When one breaks a bone, the other does not say ouch. But Steve says, "It really is like he's a part of me. At the Lake Placid Olympics, I ended up falling, but knowing that he was ahead after the first run made me feel great, almost as if it were...