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...There was not a malicious bone in his body," said Jamal K. Greene '99, former sports editor of The Crimson...
...hear how he is. How he can't make it to the bathroom by himself anymore, how the side of his face harbors a gaping unhealing wound--the result of an operation to remove a cancerous growth. As if that was more life-threatening than the fact his bone marrow was no longer producing blood cells...
...Statistical adjustments" have been a bone of contention for Democrats and Republicans ever since 1990. The apportionment of House seats and electoral-college votes must by law be determined only by person-by-person counts, or so the Supreme Court has ruled. But redistricting - how and where congressional-district boundaries are redrawn every decade so that a state's representatives have equal numbers of constituents - can be determined using statistical adjustments...
Both can be treated, but there’s a catch: the treatments are nearly as harsh on the body as the diseases themselves. Steroids, for example-a mainstay of lupus therapy-shut down the immune system and suppress painful inflammation, but can also promote hardening of the arteries, bone loss, psychosis and obesity. Steroids, in fact, are among of the leading causes of death and morbidity for patients with chronic lupus...
...after missing the first 50 games of the season with a rare-bone disease caused by an infection, Lemieux returned and won the Conn Smythe trophy as the playoff MVP, leading the Penguins to their first Stanley Cup championship ever...