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...four researchers from the Harvard Medical School recently made a major contribution to medical knowledge of the treatment of leukemia and other malignant diseases. The research, conducted in both humans and animals, promises to eliminate one of the major deterrents to massive radiation treatment-destruction of the body's bone marrow...
During periods when the leukemia is controlled by drugs, the diseased cells disappear from the bone marrow, and the marrow takes on a normal appearance. The researchers proposed to remove and freeze a part of the normal appearing marrow, storing it until leukemia cells again appeared and could not be controlled by drugs...
This book is a reverent and amusing hymn to a handful of adventurers who penetrated the bone-littered wastes of Central Asia during the past 125 years. Many of them stayed there, with their heads cleaved from their bodies by the bloodthirsty rulers of Bokhara, Merv, Kokand and Khiva. The most fascinating of these adventurers was one Joseph Wolff, a disputatious Jew turned Anglican missionary, who set out in 1843 to rescue two British officers held captive in Bokhara...
...flue-scorching "twofer" stogies and forty-rod whisky (known as "red disturbance"), and there were real drinking men to lap it up, e.g., the miner in Bodie who, when he ran out of gold dust, slashed off his ear, slapped it on the bar and demanded credit. Manufacturers of bone combs were paying $1.25 for Indian skulls, and a white man's life was not worth much more...
...sleekly barbered businessman at ringside nodded his approval ("Frankie's voice has cracked a little, but what the hell . . . so's mine"). He seemed unbothered by what the night with Sinatra was costing him. The sunburned blonde who shared his table dropped a bone to applaud, her diamonds glittering; she seemed bemused by what a night of Sinatra might be worth. Whatever the song -Willow Weep for Me, I've Got You Under My Skin, The Lady Is a Tramp-Frankie's unmatched showmanship, his sad, slow baritone, his baggy, bedroom eyes got the message across...