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...disease was 30 months, and indeed, his initial round of conventional chemotherapy was unsuccessful. But in a coincidence that was both ironic and edifying, CellPro scientists were experimenting with a new way to boost the success rate of the very operation recommended for this type of cancer: a bone-marrow transplant...
...form of this procedure, doctors remove from the patient's bone marrow a supply of stem cells--the body's blood-making factories--and put them aside for safekeeping. Then they use powerful doses of radiation and chemotherapy to destroy all the cancer cells in the blood--in the process, destroying the healthy blood cells as well. Finally, they try to rebuild the blood supply from scratch by reinfusing the patient with the original stem cells...
...Center in Seattle, the trial began. About four hours later, the patient went home, a catheter in his chest, to await the verdict. Tarnowski called that night to tell him that the purging had finally worked. Then began some two months of grueling radiation, chemotherapy and the new, improved bone-marrow transplant...
Groups like Brown's have lobbied for a multiracial category on government forms, but they also point out that recognizing multiracialism is more than just a matter of "psychic comfort." There are important health issues, for example, such as bone-marrow matching and how such race-specific syndromes as Tay-Sachs manifest themselves and get treated in biracial individuals. And most multiracial Americans have had the experience of being arbitrarily assigned an ethnic identity by a school principal, a caseworker or an employer that may differ from other family members'--or from one form to the next...
Shelby Woo's creator, Alan Goodman, was always taken aback at Nancy Drew's ability to take command of any environment she found herself in: "She winds up in ski country, and suddenly she's winning a ski championship." Goodman limned Shelby, instead, as someone made of flesh and bone. "She doesn't excel in every course," he says of his character. "She depends on her friends for rides; she works because she needs the money. I wanted her to be more reflective of the girls I grew up with. Nancy Drew never made a wrong assumption in her life...