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...sure didn't let up. Forty-five seconds into the contest, Terrier Michele Barnard took a 40-yard pass from teammate Leonie Kortenhorst, stopped to control the ball at the top of the arc and blasted it past freshman goalie Anya Cowan...
...wonders of modern medicine, none has captured the public imagination as fully as organ transplantation. Since 1967, when South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard kept 55-year-old Louis Washkansky alive for 18 additional days by giving him a heart taken from a 24-year-old woman killed in an auto accident, these spectacular feats of surgical legerdemain--often involving teams of physicians toiling meticulously for as long as 48 hours--have won headline coverage and created instant heroes of patients and doctors alike...
...those heroes is Dr. Thomas Starzl, the doctor who, in the same year Barnard replaced Washkansky's heart, performed the first successful liver transplant in Denver. It was Starzl's team at the University of Pittsburgh's Transplantation Institute that made liver transplants routine and fine-tuned the intricate balance of immunosuppression drugs to fight the rejection of transplanted organs by the body's immune system. Now, as he approaches retirement after three decades of spectacular achievement, Starzl has reached the conclusion that he and his colleagues had, for all those years, been going about organ transplantation the wrong...
...paradigm shift" in transplant thinking--in no way diminishes the work already accomplished. The surgical techniques used by him and his colleagues have added years--decades in some cases--to the lives of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children. From the 1950s through today, physicians like Starzl, Barnard, Toronto's Joel Cooper and Stanford's Norman Shumway have moved mountains' worth of kidneys, pancreases, livers, hearts and lungs from one human body to another...
Frances Loeb maintained a lifetime of philanthropy, and was a benefactor of Barnard College, the Loeb Student Center at New York University, the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Central Park in New York City and Lewisohn Stadium...