Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last view of the wreckage occurred before boarding a bus that took me to the volunteer fire department. By this time, it was dark. Flood lights surrounding the wreckage highlighted the dented metal and the blood that was everywhere...
...Union and worked tirelessly to save the radiation victims. Virtually ignored in the reports from the scene was the fact that Soviet physicians and Gale tried a controversial new technique on six of the most severely irradiated Chernobyl workers: fetal-cell surgery. In a desperate attempt to reconstitute the blood-forming tissues of these victims, the doctors transplanted liver cells from human fetuses aborted in the first months of pregnancy...
...treat diabetics. In Sweden, researchers have performed fetal-brain-cell transplants to rid rats of Parkinson's disease, a progressive and hitherto incurable neural disorder. In the U.S. and elsewhere, fetal-cell experiments with animals have shown promise of treatments for a host of other human disorders, ranging from blood diseases like thalassemia to paralysis caused by spinal-cord damage. Says Neurosurgeon Barth Green of the University of Miami: "This field isn't growing, it's exploding...
...Apodaca case was considered one of the strongest remaining against Lucas. Besides his written confession, investigators say he led them to the scene of the killing. His attorneys, however, produced witnesses supporting his new claim that he was 600 miles away on the night of the crime. Further, blood and semen samples found at the scene do not match Lucas', and there has been another confession to the murder...
...fighter my biggest drawback was [that] I was a boxer, not a slugger. The crowds wanted knock-outs, blood and guts. I would go the distance and always out-point my opponent. Finally I hung up the mits. There was no money and I felt my health was more important...