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Southern Californian transplant, this is the LA--can you forgive yourself if you miss the stunning Griffith Observatory sciences?--that is a sure cure for this cold and dreary season. With James Dean and Mr. Howell from Gilligan's Island...
Bone-marrow transplants for advanced breast-cancer patients allow some women + whose cancers have spread into 10 or more lymph nodes to undergo more intensive radiation therapy. The 1,200 instances in which the technique has been tried so far suggest that it may add several years to a patient's life -- at a cost of more than $100,000 a year. However, refinements may soon drastically reduce that to a far more cost-effective $17,000. Letha Mills, director of the bone-marrow transplant program at New Hampshire's Norris Cotton Cancer Center, is worried about the chilling effect...
...test, a kind of tissue matching used to decide who will probably accept a kidney transplant most successfully, is less accurate for blacks than for whites. The result: blacks receive only 22% of donated kidneys (not counting transplants from relatives) though they make up 31% of patients waiting for such an operation...
With the United Auto Workers' announcement last week that it had chosen Ford as its lead target, negotiations on a new three-year contract between U.A.W. and the Big Three automakers began in earnest. The key issue is the labor-cost advantages enjoyed by Japanese companies with transplant factories in the U.S. These factories are nonunion, their employees are young and they have few retirees...
...like home, hearth and family -- that have seemingly gone astray in many urban centers. California never offered those. California offered liberation and excitement. "We just decided that Pocatello, with its low crime and good schools, was the place we wanted to raise a child," says Peter Angstadt, 38, a transplant from Fremont, California. He moved in 1987, and in 1989 became mayor of the Idaho town. Angstadt, a jogger and bicycle enthusiast, thrives on Pocatello's old-fashioned, small-town neighborliness: "When you ask someone for directions, they practically lead you there in their...