Word: sisters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Together, the Jeep, the Alliance and a new sister car, the Encore, are finally giving AMC a broader appeal. Previous offerings, like the gremlin-plagued Gremlin and the Pacer, consistently missed that target. The well-built Alliance is also countering the legacy of another AMC albatross: poor quality. Indeed, the company's total sales could rise from last year's $3.3 billion to $4 billion in 1984, a lofty height never attained...
...hope for a cure was a transplant of bone marrow, which could provide the body with a rapidly multiplying source of defender cells to ward off disease. Such transplants were once possible only if a genetically matched donor, generally a sibling, could be found. Sadly, David's older sister's cell type did not match his. In the past few years, however, new technology has made it possible to transplant imperfectly matched marrow, making obsolete the isolation approach to David's illness. "There will be no more bubbles," said Dr. William Shearer, the boy's physician...
Post-mortem examination disclosed "totally unexpected" complications, according to Shearer. Accumulations of abnormally large white blood cells known as B cells were found in the boy's intestines, lungs and spleen. The fact that the cells were David's and not his sister's suggested that the transplant had not taken hold. For doctors, the more interesting question was whether these cells were malignant. The answer could provide valuable clues to the immune system and how it defends against cancer. "David's life," said an emotional Shearer, "has been important for medicine, but his greatest contribution...
What does freedom to associate mean if you can't even pick the people with whom you're going to share the intimate experience of downing a few kegs? At my sister's high school, they've had sororities, rush and selective membership for years. Now, of course, she's a little upset because she was black balled--but that's something you have to live with...
...tone is never preachy or unnecessarily gloomy; McGinley shuns intellectual, moral, or narrative pomp. Rather, what is most striking in this work is the verisimillitude of the feelings he ascribes to his characters. For example, just after his marriage, Kevin tries to ease out of his relationship with his sister, who still wants to sleep with him. However, McGinley poignantly describes Kevin's problem with remaining faithful to his wife...