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...easy to find inthose days), I said to myself that it's betterelsewhere in the world and when I am able to maketrips to the serious tropics, like Cuba, theAmazon and New Guinea, that's when I'll find thewildernesses and the great environments.B-9Crimson File PhotoE.O. Wilson, with baboon...
...MORE THAN TWO MONTHS, THE WORLD'S FIRST baboon-to-human liver transplant patient seemed to be improving. Doctors successfully treated a mild case of tissue rejection a few weeks after the ground-breaking 11-hour operation at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The problem did not recur, and by the end of July the new liver had tripled in size, matching a healthy human organ. But late last month a fever set in, followed by an infection -- possibly caused by an injection of X ray-sensitive dye. The liver began to fail, and then, within a week, though...
...still anonymous 35-year-old man who received a baboon's liver in June is not doing well. The problem is infection, not rejection. Dye injected into his bile ducts to make them show up on X rays apparently caused the infection, and the patient's immune system, weakened by antirejection drugs, could not easily fight it. High doses of antibiotics reduced the resulting fever. But when tests showed the liver was excreting too little bile, the man's condition was downgraded to critical. A similar transplant on another patient was postponed until doctors resolve the situation...
...sang like Bing Crosby. More important, he looked like Crosby sang: dark, romantic, utterly at ease. Those seductive glissandi and buh-buh-buh-boos made him a housewife's heart murmur and the ideal straight man for a crew-cut ba- ba-baboon, Jerry Lewis -- "the organ grinder and the monkey," they were called. In the early '50s the duo owned movies, TV, nightclubs, stage shows, and the singer had hit records (That's Amore, Memories Are Made of This) on the side. When they split up in 1956, he segued smoothly into leading-man roles. He Rat-Packed...
...recovering inside, the choice had been between life and death. In an 11-hour operation, the unidentified patient received a new liver to replace his own, ravaged by hepatitis B. Since the virus would have also destroyed a replacement human liver, doctors transplanted the organ from a baboon...