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Mrs. White sits alone worrying in the second floor waiting area when she is not by her daughter's bedside.

The Burts are struggling to stay alive. Susan, know fatally diseased, hopes the bone marrow transplant will add a couple of months to her life. Her husband, Stephen, recently laid off from work, will have trouble caring for his children.

Much of the work that goes on at Dana-Farber is research to find cures for both cancer and AIDS. A researcher is masked and gowned when handling AIDS-infected blood samples.

A man undergoing a painful bone marrow extraction grips the examining table before the procedure.

Wearing a protective mask and robe, his immune system failing, his patient is affectionately called 'The Mummy Man' by staffers. Despite the friendliness of the staff, thee is this great loneliness about him as he faces more desperate radiation…

Daniel Lyons waits with his daughter Elizabeth for her turn to be tested at the Dana Farber's children's clinic. Within the clinic, jammed with sick children, there is always a playfulness tinged with fear.

The renowned Dana Farber Cancer institute in Boston has been under attack for the past two years after a Boston journalist died as a result of an improper treatment. But to most cancer patients, it still remains a haven, a place of hope. Lisa Heck…

Shannon had given 24 years of his life to making sure his young players had options besides hanging out and using drugs. He encouraged hard work and individuality and instructed them to follow their consciences, as he is doing now.

The 50-year-old Shannon still teaches phys ed at the school, but the coaching that he's been doing for 24 years was closed to him. The former head coach at East Side can only look on from the sidelines.

East St. Louis, impoverished and neglected, has been called America's Soweto, and the city's school system has been similarly ravaged. Shannon protested the school's financial mismanagement and corruption after having been denied sufficient money for…