Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When my sister was ten, she shocked and dismayed me by asking for a Janet Jackson album for Christmas. I took her hip-hop leanings as a decisive divergence from my way of life. Ever-proactive in the department of my sister's cultural development, I was instantly on the job, and on Christmas morning she unwrapped a new Janet Jackson CD and a new 90-minute mix tape from me, titled "Girls with Guitars." Within a few months, the mix tape had triumphed, and she was passing feminist folk music along to her friends--kind of scary...
Harvard's guards tried to loft passes into the paint to 6'5 senior center Melissa Johnson and her sister, 6'4 freshman center Sarah Johnson, but the Huskies' big players were doing a good job of fronting them...
Some people have found a way to forgive: even parents who lost their beloved children; even kids who won't ever walk again, or speak clearly, or grow old together with a sister who died on the school lawn. But other survivors are still on a journey, through dark places of anger and suspicion, aimed at a government they fear wants to cover up the misjudgments of police; at a school that wants to shift blame; at the killers' parents, who have stated their regrets in written statements issued through their lawyers but who still aren't saying much...
...cells from the umbilical cord of a newborn infant. In effect, he got a new bloodmaking system. Other young sickle-cell patients have undergone transplants, but these involved bone-marrow cells and had to be matched precisely with the recipients' own blood. In Keone's case, though, his half-sister could not offer matching marrow. So his doctors decided to turn to more easily available cord blood. Consisting largely of immature stem cells, it does not require precise matches between recipient and donor...
...SERENA WILLIAMS After Martina Hingis felled Williams' sister Venus, Serena redeemed the family name by beating Hingis at the U.S. Open. It was only her second year as a pro, and she ended it as No. 4 in the world. Her Sampras-like serve scared everybody but her older sister, who at the Lipton Cup had enough psychological edge to beat...