MIT is celebrating Daffodil Days 2007, an MIT Women's League-sponsored fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. Heather Peach, a child-life specialist, Janet Plotkin of the MIT Women's League and social worker Evelyn Malkin play with a child whose twin is a cancer patient at Massachusetts General Hospital. Teddy bears like the ones above can be sent to cancer patients for a donation of $25. Photo / Donna Coveney
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