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Many loving parents would not hesitate to sacrifice their own lives to save their child's. But should they create a new life to rescue an endangered son or daughter? A Los Angeles couple, Abe and Mary Ayala, has taken just such an unusual step. In April, Mary will give birth to a baby girl who was purposely conceived to serve as a bone-marrow donor for her ailing older sister. Anissa, 17, was found to have a virulent form of leukemia nearly two years ago, and her only hope is a transplant of compatible bone marrow that could allow...
...shower of yellow confetti. On the sidewalks, vendors did a brisk business in T shirts emblazoned with CORY. Car horns honked in chorus. Occasional placards bobbed and dipped in the crowd. REBELLION TO TYRANTS IS OBEDIENCE TO GOD, read one. JUST LIBERATED, read another. As cars crawled along teeming Ayala Avenue, men, women and children, priests, nuns and soldiers stopped to greet each other with a salutation that somehow captured the moment: "Happy New Year...
Beaned on the bill of his batting helmet by a frightening pitch in Game 2, Baltimore Rightfielder Dan Ford homered in the sixth inning of the third game and figured in the winning run when Shortstop Ivan DeJesus erred on a quick Ford bouncer that scored Benny Ayala. It was not unpleasant seeing Ford get up to do these wonderful things, just as, for at least a while, Joe Morgan was a joyous sight. "I have never been this close to going away," he says quietly, but the proud manner in which he adds, "I can still hit the fastest...
Next came the scientists. G. Brent Dalrymple of the U.S. Geological Survey attacked creation science at its weakest point: the contention that the earth is some 10,000 years old. It is more like 4.5 billion years, said Dalrymple, who scorned the creation contingent as flat-earthers. Francisco Ayala of the University of California at Davis, an ex-priest turned geneticist, ran a brief seminar on amino acids to show that man and monkeys evolved from a common ancestor, but conceded that God could be behind the whole process...
...world - was deemed so despicable that those who left were viewed as near traitors. But emigration is now so commonplace that the stigma is fading. Says Hebrew University Freshman Ayala Broide, 22: "For me, it's good in Israel, but there are those who want an easier life. If Israelis want to emigrate and live abroad, I don't see why they shouldn't." Israel's young can be more flexible than their elders on other issues, too, and are both questioning and speaking out on them. Yael Maschler, 22, a mathematics and linguistics major...