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...long list of prenatal choices. But for Noel Beninati, one donor's checkmark offered a lifeline. Last May, Beninati received a transplant of stem cells harvested from the blood of an infant's discarded umbilical cord at Boston's Dana Farber Institute, to help him fight a rare blood condition called myelodysplastic syndrome. After doctors couldn't find a matching bone-marrow donor, the 58-year-old New Yorker says his last hope was cord blood, a solution that would not exist without parental donors. New parents, Beninati urges, "must understand the importance this decision can mean for the public...
...freshman season, contributes solid hitting in addition to a quick glove. There should be no doubt that Harvard has the talent to be playing in the championship tournaments late in the spring. But what will it do early?Rain and snow have made outdoor practice a rare event for the Crimson. Despite indoor facilities in the bubble, without the chance to get much outdoor practice, the expected early season kinks may be a bit tougher to ameliorate. “We’re all really, really excited to start out this weekend,” Madick said...
...prolonged applause, New York Philharmonic music director Lorin Maazel took to a podium in Pyongyang. And as he stood in front of a standing room only audience of about 1,400 people, it became clear quickly that the evening would be one of rare power and emotion. North Korean and U.S. flags stood at either end of the stage, and the entire audience rose as both nations' anthems were played. From that point on, for the next two hours, it was hard to remember that during the bus ride that afternoon, the members of the orchestra and the journalists accompanying...
...much filled the void we had down low,” Lin said. “I don’t know what’s gotten into them, but they’ve been unstoppable all weekend.”The team oozed confidence on the night, a rare sight after its miserable seven-game losing streak. With Penn once again going on a 7-2 run late in the second to cut the lead down to 13, Jeremy Lin calmly dropped a leaning jumper to narrowly beat the shot clock at the 5:33 mark. Sophomore Dan McGeary...
...respectively) terrifying or revolutionary. Even with the lovely Sting-supplied acoustics of “Street Law” and “For My Soldiers,” the best cut on the album is “My Box Chevy.” A rare triumph of synth over sample, “My Box Chevy” is a low-key anthem to a Caprice bought “from an old white couple.” It transcends the low-budget production and the superficially played-out lyrics to become the rare automotive anthem bereft...