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Rich Price is an FBI special agent assigned to the domestic terrorism squad in Denver, a veteran of Oklahoma City and the Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta. He was in the North Carolina mountains searching for suspected bomber Eric Rudolph on April 20 when he heard about the rampage at Columbine. In TV news footage that afternoon, he saw his Denver-based colleagues on the scene and called his office. He was told to return to Denver ASAP--suddenly two teenage boys had become the target of a domestic-terrorism probe...
Cord-cell transplants have been performed for other blood diseases, such as leukemia, but they remain experimental and highly risky. Dr. Andrew Yeager, a transplant physician at Emory University medical school in Atlanta, warned the Penns that not only might Keone die, but there was not even more than a 50% chance the procedure would do any good. After seven years of blood transfusions that were becoming more and more painful and increasingly ineffective, Keone decided he had no other choice. "Mama, I might die anyway," he told his mother Leslie, a medical technician, who left the decision entirely...
...neutralize his immune system so it would accept the new cells. These came from an anonymous donor at the New York Blood Center and were fed intravenously into Keone on Dec. 11 last year by Yeager and his colleagues at the AFLAC Cancer Center of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (formerly Egleston Children's Hospital...
...York City isn't the only place with bad apples. A schoolteacher in Atlanta was caught distributing advance copies of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills, and another in northern Georgia was cited when seven of his special-ed students scored a perfect 600 on the language portion of the test. Dan Erling, a respected sixth-grade math instructor in Atlanta, left the profession in disgust over what he felt was rampant cheating. He estimates that as many as 15% of his incoming students had inflated test scores because of improper help from teachers, such as telling students...
...YANKEES After setting the record for most wins in 1998, the Yankees were in everyone's cross hairs. But they once again played as a team and once again made the competition look minor league, including the should-have-been team of the '90s, the Atlanta Braves...