Word: bone
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TEACHING. Even the best schools can't teach everything. In fact, I think the best schools do not even try to cover all fronts. Rather than complaining about this, parents should try to make a virtue of necessity. We should bone up on (or remember) the knowledge we value and teach it to our children. Sometimes it will be academic subject matter, but just as often it will be a value or an attitude. Perhaps the greatest gift my mother gave me when I was young was her commitment to sit just behind me each day when I practiced...
...initiative to hold a drive this year began, said Tambar, because one SAA member has an ill relative who is in need of a bone marrow transplant...
Students who attend the drive will take a simple blood test; their bone marrow type will then be recorded by the NMDP...
Things do not always end so well for similar cancer victims--especially minorities, for whom bone marrow donors are in short supply. That's why the South Asian Association (SAA) is holding a bone marrow drive today from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Green Room at Loker Commons...
...individual's type matches that of someone in need, the potential donor will be contacted. Donation involves the extraction of bone marrow from the hip while the patient is under general or local anesthesia. In a healthy individual, the body replaces the lost marrow, leaving no permanent damage...