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When Lea Ann and Brad Curry of Lanesville, Ind., first lifted the hands of tiny daughter Natalie, their hearts clutched. The baby's left thumb was missing, and her right thumb was useless. The radius bone was missing from the infant's left arm. The doctors' diagnosis was devastating: Fanconi's anemia. Unless Natalie received a new immune system from transplanted stem cells, the units from which all blood cells derive, she faced a short life of severe anemia and possible retardation...
Harvard had gone through its previous two seasons behind the strong arm of seniors Tom Yohe '89 and Tim Perry '90, but in this new year, no one emerged decisively at the helm of the Crimson offense...
...that changed in late October of his first year, when he had an accident which disqualified him from participating in the program. He left a book in an MIT classroom, and he broke his arm after tripping on a driveway chain guard while running across the campus to retrieve the book. He considered suing MIT, but regained the scholarship in the spring...
...playing days were interrupted, and then arrested, by a season-ending injury his junior year. In a bizarre precursor to the ill fate his future team, the Crimson, suffers every time it travels to New Haven, Conn., Tomassoni broke his left arm in two places in the Yale Whale...
...feminists are to be found on all sides of the debate, and many protest the idea that all the onus is on the man. It demeans women to suggest that they are so vulnerable to coercion or emotional manipulation that they must always be escorted by the strong arm of the law. "You can't solve society's ills by making everything a crime," says Albuquerque attorney Nancy Hollander. "That comes out of the sense of overprotection of women, and in the long run that is going to be harmful...