Word: stems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sienese goldsmith Guccio di Mannaia, presented to the Franciscans by Pope Nicholas IV in the late 13th century. In design and workmanship it is more than a masterpiece--it's one of the greatest monuments of medieval art, standing only a little more than nine inches high. Its base, stem and bulb are decorated with some 80 tiny and exquisitely made enamel-glass plaques, representing mythical beasts, evangelists, angels, prophets and apostles. The gold surface between them carries a rich linear ornamentation that never gets congested. The silver-gilt cup, borne up on the stem, is quite plain: it shifts...
...only NATO had acted earlier. in 1998 common sense, international law, regional stability and humanitarian considerations dictated that Albania's border with Kosovo be sealed to stem the flow of weapons to the Kosovo Liberation Army. Kosovo would have been spared much of the ensuing violence, and the K.L.A. would have realized that an enhanced autonomy--already conceded in principle by Belgrade--was the most it could hope to achieve. MIKE FINCH Teddington, England...
Oliver's personal relationship with nature is both difficult to accept and difficult to condemn. For a poet grounded so firmly in the messages of nature, Oliver is often less of an environmentalist than one might expect. As she herself states, her impressions stem more from the experience of a "luminous life" than from an external environmentalist ethic. But regardless of whether Oliver's reasons for writing poetry are universal, her reasons are well-considered and interesting. Additionally, in speculating on the difference between her motivations, her intentions and her poetry, the veteran Oliver reader may be encouraged to formulate...
...breast cancer, an especially aggressive malignancy that had already ranged well beyond the site of the original disease. Eventually she and her doctors agreed they should attack the advancing cancer with what many people believe is the most potent weapon available: high-dose chemotherapy accompanied by a transplant of stem cells, precursors of disease-fighting immune-system cells...
...lethal cancers, it involves flooding the body with toxic chemotherapy drugs in an effort to overwhelm the malignancy. While the drugs do kill cancer cells, they also destroy most of the disease-fighting cells in the immune system. That's why doctors harvest marrow cells from the bones or stem cells from the bloodstream--both of which give rise to new immune cells--before they begin chemotherapy. When the treatment is done, these cells are reinfused into the body, in the hope that the immune system will rebound. Punishing as the therapy is, advocates say it can work, and patients...