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...decision to donate a newborn's umbilical-cord blood is, for many expectant mothers, a simple checkmark on a long list of prenatal choices. But for Noel Beninati, one donor's checkmark offered a lifeline. Last May, Beninati received a transplant of stem cells harvested from the blood of an infant's discarded umbilical cord at Boston's Dana Farber Institute, to help him fight a rare blood condition called myelodysplastic syndrome. After doctors couldn't find a matching bone-marrow donor, the 58-year-old New Yorker says his last hope was cord blood, a solution that would...
...council's inspectors also sanction wood products made from its approved forests if their manufacturer meets yet another set of criteria. Certified products, including Gibson's Les Paul Exotics line of guitars, are allowed to carry the FSC symbol, which features a tree with a checkmark. "It's a verifiable audit trail," says Jamie Ervin, the executive director of the FSC's U.S. branch. "Instead of just being hit with negative images about rain-forest destruction, consumers can look for a logo that lets them make a positive environmental choice...
Pragmatism required, I thought, that I attend a technical college. My hand quivered a little when it wrote a checkmark in the yesbox on the MIT reply card. I dreamt in July that I'd move into Harvard Yard in the fall. Pleasant thoughts about wrought-iron gates, about pointless but titillating intellectual arguments and about a huge, well-financed library danced about in my brain, but disappeared when I woke up and remembered which school I'd chosen. It didn't mater. Prospective engineers...
...etching), he is spurned. He employs many great names, many swaggering pronouns. "Whistler," says Etcher Pennell, "Whistler and I. . . ." "Whistler and me. . . ." Down the list of the world's immortal etchers he runs his pen, here scratching out a name, there setting a black spot, occasionally making the faint checkmark of approval; Of Zorn's later prints he says: "They had become feeble and photographic beyond words," though for the other periods of that surpassing master he has some admiration. The book is illustrated with the prints of many great etchers?Whistler, Rembrandt, Pennell, Gova, Duveneck, Turner, Lepèère?...
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