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...bone marrow, for instance, would only accept an interloping cell, the larger system would follow suit. The trouble was, the only way to achieve that was to kill off the body's entire current bone-marrow supply and replace it with another--a technique oncologists use as a last-ditch weapon to try to cleanse patients of such systemic cancers as leukemia and breast cancer...
Parental intervention can still save some of these barely visible blobs of protoplasm, and last week a few did get last-minute reprieves. But despite the best efforts of clinic officials, the majority of these "parents"--couples who had donated egg and sperm in an attempt at in-vitro fertilization (IVF)--cannot or will not be located. Without word from the parents within five years, British law requires that the embryos be destroyed. And so, after last-ditch appeals to the courts and Prime Minister John Major failed, the clinics began dumping the eggs and embryos like so much abandoned...
...Cusick, 37, of San Francisco learned last July that an AIDS-related illness was eating away at his brain and would probably kill him by October. In a last-ditch effort to save his life, his doctors gave him three anti-HIV drugs all at once. Within weeks, the lesions inside his head started to disappear. And tests could no longer find even a trace of the virus...
...Post that Chicago, despite its best efforts, no longer has the tallest building in the world. I don't mean that the building in question, the Sears Tower, upped and moved to the suburbs while desperate city officials trotted alongside it, waving their final tax-abatement offers in a last-ditch effort to keep it where it was. That would have been on the front page of the Washington Post...
What's more, as the time for accounting came up, people might even bring in the bag of newspapers gathering dust in their rooms or the ready-to-collapse pizza box pyramid down to the recycling room. The last-ditch effort to bring the number down might turn into a massive room cleaning, beneficial to students for hygiene purposes if nothing else...