Word: marrow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...allegedly stolen by Lee and Sword would have covered, with money to spare, the entire cost of a bone marrow transplant, according to a spokesperson at Dana-Farber...
Vild said that $132,000 can cover, with money to spare, the entire cost of a bone marrow transplant...
...years after the initial thalidomide disaster, researchers discovered that the drug has an almost miraculous ability to treat complications of leprosy. Then they learned they could use it against some of the potentially fatal side effects of bone-marrow surgery. The past year has brought reports that the drug may help fight tuberculosis, a common cause of blindness called macular degeneration and even AIDS...
...words still seep into the reader's marrow, 42 years after they were first ( published. "I am an invisible man," Ralph Ellison declared in the opening sentence of his only novel. "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." If they do register his presence, it is as "a figure in a nightmare which the sleeper tries with all his strength to destroy...
...last week, days before she left for Lillehammer with her husband and partner Jerod Swallow. Her father was stabbed to death in his Michigan home, allegedly by her mentally disturbed brother. Speed skater Kristen Talbot learned it when she risked her physical ability to compete by giving a bone-marrow transplant last Jan. 11 to her brother Jason, gravely ill with aplastic anemia. Luger Cammy Myler, already chagrined at the dislocated shoulder last September that dimmed her medal chances, felt her injury diminish in meaning when her brother and sporting mentor Tim was hospitalized for potentially fatal colon cancer...