Word: boning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Paul Tsongas will suffer a relapse or a secondary cancer are difficult to gauge. After conventional treatments failed to eradicate his disease, he underwent a more radical procedure that is too new for doctors to have data on long-term survival rates. The procedure, known as an autologous bone-marrow transplant, was designed to overcome the basic limitation faced by all conventional cancer therapies: in doses sufficient to do their job, they can destroy the bone marrow, the mother lode of all blood cells, red and white. By removing a portion of the bone marrow (and purging it separately...
Cancer survivors cheer when they hear Tsongas speak of the moment on "day zero" that he watched his bone marrow -- and his life -- being pumped back into his body. His candidacy has encouraged other survivors in the same way that wheelchair athletes cheer amputees and paraplegics. "It excites them to know that there's someone who's willing to talk about the disease, who's not afraid to say he's had cancer," says Peggy Baker, director of the cancer- survivors program at the University of Chicago Hospitals...
...teenage girl in a photograph in the middle of Townships, a new compilation of essays by midwestern authors, smiles. She sits with legs crossed in front of a restaurant window with the words "Fresh Catfish or T-bone--2 for $8" written on it in soap...
...bone-dry Southern California, the rains that began Feb. 5 at first provided a welcome respite from a six-year-long drought. But last week the storms suddenly became too much of a good thing. Fifteen inches has fallen, drowning cars, streets and houses under rivers of water. At least eight people died, including a Ventura County man and his pregnant wife who were buried by a wave...
Chad Kister comes back from a morning of canvassing. He wears a plastic Uncle Sam hat with a Harkin bumper sticker, a secondhand herring-bone overcoat, high-top sneakers. The question he receives most often when knocking on doors is "Why did you come all the way out here?" Kister took a week off from classes at Ohio State and had to reschedule a midterm to work for the Harkin campaign. In Cleveland, he hitched a ride on a bus of Harkin supporters from Iowa...