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Magdalena Vozaites, 5, is the daughter of a Greek immigrant family living in Daly City, Calif. The victim of a birth defect that prevented her from resisting infection, Maggie has had illness as her constant companion since infancy. During one 18-month period, she was hospitalized nine times with serious infections, including pneumonia. It was questionable whether she would survive childhood...
Last month, Ammann tried the operation again on Matthew Octavio of Petaluma, four weeks old, who suffered from an immune defect that had killed six of his cousins. He was sent home, then returned to hospital with a possible respiratory infection, which the transplant might help him to overcome...
...appointments, if the Houses should take on a more academic role. Others worry about the possible exclusiveness of House-based courses. But most students and many faculty members regret the dichotomy that remains between the two aspects of college life and feel that ways lie open to remedy this defect and also to make better use of the great investment that has gone into the Houses already...
...help remedy this defect, the faculty at Chicago's Columbia College, a small, obscure liberal arts school, will try to coax returning veterans to put their experience on paper. The college is offering a writing course called Psychology of War: the Combat Experience. Started by Instructor Larry Heinemann, 28, who commanded an armored personnel carrier in Viet Nam, the course is open to any student with combat experience. Says Heinemann: "Only combat veterans can talk about combat, because it is so alien, so dehumanizing, so decivilizing...
Harvard's Richard Sidman, who was the first to apply the reassembly technique to brain cells, is now experimenting with a special variety of laboratory-produced mice called "reelers." A genetically caused "wiring" defect in the cerebellum and cerebral cortex of the reelers' brains impairs their coordination so completely that they stagger like drunks whenever they try to walk. Remarkably, when the brain tissue was taken from fetuses that had just developed the defect, Sidman's cells reorganized themselves in the same curious pattern...