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...believe that French people are megalomaniacs, who crave the world's attention? French culture doesn't have to depend on others' desires. Anissa Desuzinge, LA GARDE, FRANCE IN A LETTER TO TIME...
...arts, music and literature than is any other country. French culture isn't in decline. France's population has only become more ethnically diverse, which wasn't expected. If France isn't understood today, it will be tomorrow - it will always be a part of the world's culture. Anissa Desuzinge, LA GARDE, FRANCE...
...Anissa Ayala, the leukemia-stricken girl whose parents conceived another child in the hope of providing her with a blood-marrow donor, was a hot subject too. What was the news? Among other things, her family's reaction to the NBC movie For the Love of My Child: The Anissa Ayala Story. "I really enjoyed it," Anissa's mother told reporter Kelly Lange. "I cried through the whole movie...
...Ayalas did not passively accept their daughter's fate. They knew from their doctors that the best hope for Anissa lay in a marrow transplant from a sibling, but the marrow of her only brother, Airon, was incompatible. Her life, it seemed, could depend on a sibling who did not yet exist...
Twelve days before the operation, Anissa began receiving intensive doses of radiation and chemotherapy to kill her diseased bone marrow. As a result, she is losing her hair. Her blood count is plummeting. Her immune system has gone out of business. But in two to four weeks, the new cells should take over and start their work of giving Anissa a new life...