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...well before dawn last Wednesday when Dr. Jack Copeland, the leading heart surgeon at Tucson's University Medical Center, had to face the grim truth: his patient was dying. Thomas Creighton, a 33-year-old Arizona auto mechanic, had undergone transplant surgery 24 hours earlier to replace a heart , ravaged by two heart attacks and cardiomyopathy, a progressive disease of the heart muscle. Right from the start there were problems with the transplanted organ, and a pacemaker had to be used. Then Creighton's body began rejecting the heart. At 3 a.m. he went into cardiac arrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Bold Gamble in Tucson | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

...Chicago public school, Teacher Robert Creighton wraps himself in a sheet before entering class. "When I walk into the room in a toga," he explains, "I've got everyone's attention." He holds it with a Latin version of What's My Line?, spelling bees and a puppet show starring a mouse named Equus Eddie. In Fairfax, Va., Maureen O'Donnell awards daily bonus points to high school students who can pick out pop items like Top 40 song titles scribbled in Latin on the blackboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Life for a Dead Language | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

...list was the 1983 NCAA champion, North Carolina State (19-13). The remaining bids went to Boston College (17-11), Creighton (17-13); Florida (15-12); Florida State (19-10); Fordham (19-14); Georgia (17-12); Georgia Tech (18-10); Iowa State (16-12); Lamar (25-4); La Salle (20-10); Marquette (16-12); Michigan (18-10); Nebraska (17-11); New Mexico (24-10); Notre Dame (17-11); Ohio State (15-13); Old Dominion (20-10); Oregon (16-12); Pittsburgh (16-12); St. Joseph's, Pa. (20-8); St. Peter's, N.J. (23-5); Southwestern Louisiana (20-8); Tennessee...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Harvard Not Among NIT Selections | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...Creighton 69, Illinois...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

Tulsa 82. Creighton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 2/17/1984 | See Source »

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