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Then Sweeney called the social-services department and explained that she was not well enough to care for her grandsons herself, but she wanted the brothers kept together. Instead the boys were placed in separate foster homes. Tommy, the younger, slept on a urine-stained mattress without a sheet. "He cried pitifully," Sweeney recalls. "He wouldn't eat or play. He sat with a shopping bag under his arm." The youngster was returned to his grandmother's house, but soon his mother, who temporarily cleaned herself up with the help of a detox program, regained custody of the boys...
Human cells of various types have long been successfully studied in laboratory petri dishes. Now, with the help of research performed at a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital, doctors can remove skin cells from a patient, culture them to create a new sheet of skin, and graft them back onto the patient to heal wounds...
...often difficult to recreate a reasonable facsimile of the original organ. In the technique, known as autografting, doctors can now remove a group of skin cells one centimeter square from behind a patient's ear, or from a patient's stomach, and within three weeks reproduce a sheet of the cells of whatever size is necessary to treat the patient...
...track of the changes that are transforming the American economy isn't easy. John's colleagues sometimes wonder how he manages to do it without generating mountains of paper. His plan for this week's cover story was outlined in a dozen or so brief phrases on a single sheet. He admits he will break discipline for important matters, like taking time off last Wednesday to tune in Berkeley's 37-13 stomping of Clemson in the Citrus Bowl. But he is reassuring: "I wasn't distracted for long, since they had the game won in the first quarter...
...this fact sheet was to present to the Harvard community the adverse consequences of the policies stemming from the Zionist ideology. These policies have undeniably resulted in discrimination against the Palestinian people. Our goal was not to attack either Judaism or the Jewish people. It is regrettable that a number of students has misinterpreted the intention of the fact sheet...