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...wife and I have been thinking quite a bit about umbilical cords, and not just because our first child is due in a few weeks. There's been a lot of news lately about the blood that remains in umbilical cords after they are cut; this fluid is a rich source of stem cells that can be used to treat a variety of diseases, from leukemia to sickle-cell anemia. Two weeks ago, the New England Journal of Medicine reported that children with a fatal genetic disorder called Krabbe's disease had been saved with stem cells from cord blood...
...Okay-lah. Yet the sleepy, soggy Kinta Valley comes alive in Aw's fluid prose, and the mythical Seven Maidens are as idyllic as any Malaysian isles. World War II and the cloud of collaboration hang over Johnny and his country, while the absurdities of British rule clearly shape his urge to become rich and cultured. Of course, these are concerns shared by people throughout Asia, Africa and other places who have known foreign domination and who have their own quiet valleys and lush islands to treasure in this age of onrushing development. Aw's triumph is to have produced...
...need to make major changes,” he said. “Non-elite runners should be aware that it is possible to over-drink—especially when you’re out on the course for a long time—and that fluid balance merits careful attention...
...richness and readability, exposes his apparent fear of writing about himself, and suggests a fatal flaw that will hold him back if he doesn’t get over it soon. While his rhetoric has gotten less stilted and his storytelling has become more fluid since “Everything Is Illuminated,” his continued reluctance to just be himself, instead of impersonating a grandmother, a young child, or a goofy foreigner as he has done so far, has gotten frustrating. Instead of writing about what 9/11 was like for him, in other words, which Foer feels incapable...
...this other type. And they said, about this other type, that we have no evidence whether there are cancer cells, but it is the kind that can be cancerous. And they said, now you're all prepped, you're here. That prepping took a lot of imbibing of certain fluids for hours before I went there. They said you're all ready and you're here and why not now? And I said yes. I didn't want to get back on that fluid again. And then they told me that yes, there had been a few cancer cells...