Word: nine-year-old
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Deep inside Dustin Fagan's brain, a cobwebby growth was spreading. Nothing, it seemed, could arrest the malignant tumor's terrible advance: not surgery, not radiation, not standard chemotherapy. So to save the nine-year-old's life, his doctors decided to kill him--nearly. They increased the dosage of an anticancer agent known as cyclophosphamide to levels that completely wiped out Dustin's bone marrow and thus destroyed his ability to generate new red and white blood cells. Then they revived their small patient by injecting him with healthy marrow that had been drawn in advance from his hipbone...
...sister Amanda--and drop them both off each morning at 6:30, more than an hour before school begins. Nearly a third of Independence's students have a similar 10-hour day on campus. "It's Bobby's second home," says Laurie French, the divorced mother of a nine-year-old with muscular dystrophy. "The staff is like family, and since Bobby was three, we've done a pretty good job raising him together." Although he walks with difficulty, Bobby takes karate lessons in the program. And lately his favorite activity has been crochet, taught at the day-care center...
...Last year, the money raised from this fundraiser paid for horseback riding lessons for a nine-year-old girl with ovarian cancer," Heyden said...
...Nine-year-old Michael Ajalat, who is visiting with his sister, a high school junior, says that he endured his day at Harvard by creating games for himself...
...part of the appeal, even if all you're heading for is the parking garage under the office building where you work. Riding high feels good. TV commercial actress Lonni Partridge of Manhattan Beach, California, traded her Mercedes sedan for a leased GMC Yukon last week. Her nine-year-old son and his baseball buddies fit better in it. But the high driving position makes Partridge feel more secure: "You don't have all the creeps in vans looking down at you." She feels physically more secure too: "When I drive the Mercedes, I just feel--black Mercedes, blond hair...