Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Radcliffe Women (ABRW) will use its foundation grant to partially finance a $1000 college scholarship for a local Black female high school senior Part of the grant will also cover costs of the recent Black Alumni Weekend, which ABRW sponsored with other Black student groups, said association president Anne Bailey...
...years: "The first thing I thought of was that maybe they didn't have qualified workers at the plant in India. I just don't think what happened in India could happen here." Standing outside the plant during a shift change last week, Union Carbide Worker Gary Bailey said, "I don't think there would be a disaster here. This plant knows enough about safety, and they check everything on a regular basis. It doesn't scare me a bit." Said Longtime Resident Tracy Howard, 80, the town's unofficial historian: "Shucks, you can walk...
...placing of a baboon heart into the chest of little Baby Fae caused indignation in many quarters. For some, who might safely be called eccentric, the concern was animal rights. Pickets outside Loma Linda University Medical Center and elsewhere protested the use of baboons as organ factories. Dr. Leonard Bailey, the chief surgeon, was not impressed. "I am a member of the human species," he said. Human babies come first. It was unapologetic speciesism. He did not even have to resort to sociology, to the argument that in a society that eats beef, wears mink and has for some time...
...thought that the operation might save their child (i.e., that it was therapeutic), they were misled. There was no scientific evidence to support that claim. The longest previous human survival with a heart xenograft was 3½ days. (Baby Fae lived 17 more.) The longest animal survival in Dr. Bailey's own studies was 165 days...
...Bailey and his team believe that the lessons of Baby Fae will pave the way for future baboon heart transplants, and he is convinced that the next time "we will be able to diagnose rejection earlier." The surgeon was vague about when the next time might be. "I plan to attempt it again by-and-by," he told reporters. Fae's mother, he noted, had encouraged his efforts. "The last thing she said to me was to carry on and not to let it be wasted...