Word: majewski
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Andrew S. Majewski, a volunteer who helped run the exhibit, said he was intrigued by the influence parents had on their children at the exhibit...
...kids reacted as their parents reacted," Majewski said. "If the parents showed interest and were willing to hold the insects and spiders, so were the children. If the parents backed away, so did the kids...
Shortly after 5 a.m., Teri Majewski marches purposefully into Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago. Strongly built and fit looking, the 34-year-old mother of two young children seems too healthy to be in a hospital. But she checks in at the day-surgery department and is summoned to an examining room, from which she emerges a few minutes later in a baggy blue hospital gown and the inevitable plastic bracelet. Suddenly, she looks vulnerable. This morning Majewski is scheduled to undergo a bone-marrow harvest, in which doctors will remove about a quart...
...Majewski and her husband first volunteered as donors 10 years ago, when a friend asked them to help a family member with leukemia. They underwent initial blood tests, known as HLA typing, for a series of four genetically determined traits that, along with two more traits tested at a second level, must closely match those of the patient for a transplant to be accepted by the body. Neither Teri Majewski nor her husband matched, but they let the American Bone Marrow Donor Registry keep their records...
Before sitting down, White observes to Henry Majewski, acting chairman of Brown's French department, that he's not sure how long he'll be at Brown. "Quite frankly, it all depends on whether they let my boyfriend in or not," he says, referring to a decision by the immigration service to bar his friend's entry from France because of a work-related visa problem. "He was sent back when he arrived, you know...