Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students say the admissions process has atleast changed its tone, in an effort to encouragemore applicants to attend. Spira says that whenher sister applied to medical school in the 1970s,the interview process had a reputation for beingmuch more stressful...
...life to rescue an endangered son or daughter? A Los Angeles couple, Abe and Mary Ayala, has taken just such an unusual step. In April, Mary will give birth to a baby girl who was purposely conceived to serve as a bone-marrow donor for her ailing older sister. Anissa, 17, was found to have a virulent form of leukemia nearly two years ago, and her only hope is a transplant of compatible bone marrow that could allow her to produce healthy white blood cells. Tests indicate that the baby has compatible tissue. With marrow from her sister, Anissa...
...organs from living people. For the Ayalas, the drastic measure was a last resort. Neither Abe nor Mary has marrow that matches Anissa's. (Reason: her marrow has a mixture of genetic characteristics from both parents.) Nor does brother Airon, 19, have marrow that is compatible with his sister's. And a search for a suitable nonrelated donor has been fruitless to date, though the hunt continues...
...that swirl around them are airy abstractions, not the terrifying reality they daily confront. A frightened Anissa has lately taken to dragging her mattress into her parents' bedroom each night. For her, there is no debate about how her family views soon-to-arrive Marissa. "She's my baby sister," Anissa declares. "And we're going to love her for who she is, not for what she can give me." Who is to say which sister is the luckier...
Technically at least, East Germany is still a sovereign nation. But that has hardly inhibited the leaders of West Germany's major political parties, who have been crisscrossing their neighbor's landscape on behalf of sister groups vying for victory in the country's first -- and perhaps last -- free elections on March 18. No one has campaigned with more gusto than West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who was in the city of Erfurt last week. When he was introduced as "the Chancellor of our German Fatherland," chants of "Hel-MUT! Hel- MUT!" rose from 100,000 citizens massed...