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...used to inspire his players with war stories or late-night walks in empty stadiums - anything that would get them bursting to play. Coaches forget at their peril that, along with skills, tactics are merely the ribbons and jewelry of football. Toughness and enthusiasm are its flesh and bone...
...doctors hope to further reduce the danger of rejection by injecting the patient with stem cells taken from the bone marrow of the original donor. That is an experimental approach in which the donated stem cells should, in effect, teach the woman's immune system to tolerate the graft...
...Game this weekend, the powers that be are sending a crystal-clear message to the students in New Haven: “Yes, unequivocally, you suck.”The Elis somehow did not understand their cosmic fate, cheering and rejoicing as Harvard threw Handsome Dan a bone in the form of a 21-3 lead and letting him glimpse what it feels like to be a success. But as all the optimistic little Yale graduates will learn when they enter the real world, Harvard will always be one rung above. And then Yale’s lead burned into...
...Long Island for the daughter and son-in-law of Bangladeshi Americans from his Sterling, Va., mosque. The children, who were at work in the North Tower, perished in the Sept. 11 attack, but not until this past August had medical examiners identified enough of their charred tissue and bone fragments for the parents to hold a funeral. Staring at the two wooden boxes covered with green embroidered cloth and surrounded by grieving family members, the Muslim cleric was gripped by both sadness and rage. "The terrorists who kill in the name of Islam claim they are the martyrs," Magid...
...form new vessels and improve blood flow; when injected directly into the heart with a syringe, they seem to grow into new tissue and improve pumping efficiency. He believes the lab-grown stem cells used by TheraVitae are as safe as ones taken directly from the patient's bone marrow - the most common source of stem cells for this kind of therapy - and safer than cells derived from bone or muscle tissue. "The results are promising and we don't see the complications that we see with other cell types," he says. Piero Anversa, a heart expert at New York...