Word: baileys
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Many physicians had written off this kind of organ swapping between species back in 1984, when Dr. Leonard Bailey of Loma Linda University Hospital in California transplanted a baboon's heart into a two-week-old infant known as Baby Fae. Three weeks after the operation, the child died of kidney failure, and Bailey was heavily criticized for experimenting on a human with little chance of success...
...Barnum is known to many as the founder of the Barnum & Bailey circus, or perhaps as the man behind tiny General Tom Thumb and Jumbo the Elephant (whose charred remains and untarnished tail can still be found at Tufts). Barnum was indeed a legend in his time with his constant attractions, frauds and hoaxes. He has become a central figure in any study of American popular culture, and is as much an American cultural icon as the Statue of Liberty or Marcia Brady...
...them (a biracial group of African Americans and Caucasians) were wearing black clothing as a symbol of protest. Testimony was canceled for the day so that Ito, once again, could turn his attention to the physical and psychological needs of his jury panel. Said Simpson defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey: "I've never seen anything like this. Not in 40 years...
Harvard University Extension School Writing Program Faculty Readings. Tom Bailey, Blessed, a novel in progress; Jane Brox, Here and Nowhere Else, Gail Mazur, The Common; and Myra McLarey, Water from the Well. Grossman Common Room, 51 Brattle Street. Call 495-8338 for more information...
From between the heavy draperies of House majority whip Tom DeLay's first-floor Capitol office, a bizarre scene could be glimpsed outside. In the normally quiet, heavily guarded parking lot, 13 elephants from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus were parading trunk-in-tail across the East Plaza, leading an entourage of dancing dogs and clowns on stilts. At the center of the mini-circus, a beaming Speaker Newt Gingrich shared a ring with a 14,762-lb. elephant named King Tusk. Touching off what would become a daylong stampede of inevitable jokes, the Speaker announced that...