Word: clefts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surgeon for 33 years, Koop saved many ^ babies no bigger than his hand. In the course of treating 100,000 patients, Koop saw many so-called difficult cases become happy and productive children. One of these was Paul Sweeney, born in 1965 with twisted intestines, facial deformities and a cleft palate. Koop operated on him 37 times. For the final operation by another surgeon in 1983, Koop returned to Philadelphia in full dress uniform to wheel his former patient into the operating room. Sweeney recently graduated from West Chester University in Pennsylvania...
...also allegedly been taking female hormone injections to stop facial hair and to keep his voice high, undergone silicone facial implants to reshape his cheek bones, chemically bleached and surgically peeled his skin to make him whiter, and had a chin cleft added...
...CORPORATION likes to keep its image up to date, and apparently cleft chins are in this year, so the big brass decided to revamp the product. Most of the work on "Michael Jackson" was actually done on computers, of course, but in order to keep the public convinced that there really is such a person as "Michael" they sent me door-to-door to pencil in the new cleft on fans' posters while they were away...
Cystic fibrosis, cleft palate, muscular dystrophy, Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's chorea. The list of disorders that have been traced to a specific gene or gene region seems to grow on a weekly basis. The latest in this gene- of-the-week series: the discovery of a region on the X chromosome that is linked to manic depression, a mental disorder that affects as many as 2 million Americans. The finding, published in Nature by an American and Israeli research team, was based on studies of five families in Jerusalem. It marks the second time in three weeks that...
...cleft between undergraduates who expect to be taught and faculty for whom "promotion and tenure hang on research and publication...