Word: isolationism
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The only hope for a cure was a transplant of bone marrow, which could provide the body with a rapidly multiplying source of defender cells to ward off disease. Such transplants were once possible only if a genetically matched donor, generally a sibling, could be found. Sadly, David's...
DIED. David, 12, the longest survivor of severe combined immunodeficiency; 15 days after being released from a lifetime of isolation inside a plastic "bubble"; of complications after a bone-marrow transplant; in Houston (see MEDICINE).
A number of responses to this letter have already pointed out some of the special burdens--financial, professional, and personal--which a graduate student suffers under, and I do not wish to belabor this point. But I would like to point out some of the subtler and more insidious implications...
But the assertion of some that Israel's isolation in the international arena is a result of obstinacy not any global anti Semitism bolds the least water. The condition of Arab states and third World nations, bullied by the former's oil, plus the members of the Eastern bloc can...
A more unfortunate and unnecessary case of global isolation is the ostracism of Israel by Black Africa. In the 1960s hundreds of Israeli development specialists, scientists and engineers flocked to the newly independent nations of Africa seeking to contribute to the infant states some of the know-how that helped...