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Late Sunday night—or, rather, early Monday morning—Gadfly was interrupted from her Irish lit reading by a high screeching sound. At first Gadfly thought she was being followed by the legendary banshee, as it sent a chill through her very marrow. Rushing downstairs to investigate, she realized it was merely the initiation rituals of the Sabliere society, an all-female social group started by several Crimson editors, among others, during the great “female social club” wave of the early millennium. Unfortunately, said society must bear the albatross of the greatest...
...It’s a very aggressive disease because the tumor cells replace normal cells on the bone marrow,” said Aster. “Kids have low blood counts, anemia, not enough white blood cells and sometimes also tumor masses...
...umbilical cord cells, and using proteins which we know are antagonistic, we block their growth at a point where the cells can be used for other purposes.” Ali said that eventually, these cells could be used to help leukemia patients, who are otherwise dependent on bone-marrow transplants...
...research is a controversial field right now, and I think that’s why I’ve gotten so much attention,” said Ali. “Using the umbilical cord cells fixes the lack of donors and graft recipient problems often associated with bone marrow transplants. This is really the Holy Grail of stem cell research, and could help overcome some of the field’s biggest roadblocks...
When Reagan took office, the Soviet Union was 64 years old, nearly eligible, as it were, for Social Security. The rot in its marrow, while still hidden to the outside world and U.S. intelligence, was metastasizing. Reagan's great contribution to the end of the cold war was first understanding that Moscow's cancer was terminal and then working to ensure--through arms control, constrained rhetoric and personal diplomacy--that the end would come about, peacefully but inexorably...