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...lump on his right arm that turned out to be a symptom of Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymphatic system. Treatment cured him and he was briefly healthy again, but early last year he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all), a cancer of the blood and bone marrow that kills more than half of its adolescent and young adult victims...
...imagery that may be off-putting, not because it’s homosexual, but rather because it’s awfully graphic. The squeamish will be thankful it’s often easy to miss on a casual spin: “Have already touched it / It builds the bone / Although I’ll never need it / It fills in the hole I know” is more in-joke than description, and though “I drank from the wine that came from inside / the heart of his meat and the splurge of his sweet?...
Lieberman met his co-author—and got the idea for this line of research—13 years ago when Bramble sat in on a class he was TFing. The two struck up a conversation about a puzzling bit of bone on the back of the human skull and came to the working hypothesis that it might work to stabilize the head while running...
...undefeated football team this year—not to mention the only undefeated team in Division I-AA—the prospects for losing with dignity look especially grim for our dogged visitors. The powers of the universe must have forgot to throw our New Haven friends a pity bone this year, leaving them fittingly with a “mediocre” 3-3 Ivy League record...
McDermott, the league leader in per-game passing and offense, had absorbed a bone-crunching hit on Penn’s final play against Princeton last week, leaving his availability for the Harvard game in doubt. As Saturday’s title bout with the Crimson neared, various diagnoses sprang up on websites and newspapers from Philadelphia to Cambridge. A bruised collarbone. A broken collarbone. An injury to his non-throwing shoulder. McDermott wouldn’t play. He’d play, but not start...