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...Senior Tour. His relationship with his father Bob has had its ups and downs, all of them traceable to late 1980, when David's elder brother Brent was found to have a rare blood disorder, aplastic anemia. David donated bone marrow, but Brent died soon after of graft-vs.-host disease. Nine-year-old David wondered if he had contributed to his brother's death and became a subdued, serious child...
...object? It cracks a little. On Wednesday, the fury of the Salt Lake City Olympic bribery scandal produced its first significant fallout at the Swiss headquarters of the International Olympic Committee. The body voted to expel six members implicated in the taking of hundreds of thousands of dollars in graft during the site selection process for the 2002 games. At the same time, the committee overwhelmingly voted to express its confidence in the leadership of its embarrassed and embattled president, Juan Antonio Samaranch. The votes were expected, says TIME assistant managing editor Howard Chua-Eoan:"The committee knew...
...savers to put away enough for retirement and take the load off Social Security? Senator William Roth (R-Del.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, believes he knows a good idea when he sees one: his own. Roth is proposing to take his popular Roth IRA idea and graft it onto employee 401(k) plans. The central feature of the proposal would be to make the earnings on contributions in 401(k) plans tax-free when they are distributed at retirement, much like the Roth IRA. "Obviously, any attempt to increase savings would be helpful to both savers...
...operations, requiring closer matches in tissue types between donors and recipients than for, say, hearts or kidneys. Because the immune system comes from the marrow, a transplant of that reddish pulp is, in effect, an immune-system transplant. There's the usual possibility that the body may reject the graft as "foreign." Then there's the almost surreal danger that the transplanted immune system will attack and kill its host...
...tools. The images in the book are unnervingly graphic, and Strong spares the reader as little as the victims spare themselves. In one chilling episode, a woman "sliced one [arm] open from wrist to elbow down to the muscle and burned herself so badly she required a skin graft...