Word: celling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...UCLA and three colleagues flew to the Soviet 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...
Those efforts were in vain; all six patients died within a week of the accident. Nonetheless, that Gale used the technique at all reflected the growing confidence of many doctors that fetal-cell surgery could soon become an important medical tool. In the People's Republic of China, physicians have used fetal-cell implants to 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...
Mandela spent the year alone in a spacious cell on the third floor of a maximum-security wing at Pollsmoor prison, ten miles south of Cape Town. And although he has been behind bars since August 1962 for conspiracy and sabotage, his shadow fell with stark drama across the racial conflict that in the past year claimed 1,000 more lives...
...Ninoy languished in prison, his diffident and devout wife became his eyes, ears and voice in the outside world, acting as his liaison with what remained of the Philippine opposition. For seven years and seven months, spending hours alone with her husband in his cell, the upper-class matron received tutorials in opposition strategies from a master of the political arts. In between, she had to smuggle messages to and from him, sometimes on scraps of paper, sometimes in her head...
Hasenfus said in Guatemala that Nicaraguan Interior Minister Tomas Borge, who oversees the national penal system, had given him the key to his cell at Tipitapa prison, 12 miles east of Managua...