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...implications of her short life, said her surgeon, Dr. Leonard Bailey of California's Loma Linda University Medical Center, were just beginning. On Oct. 26, 1984, Bailey had stitched a walnut-sized baboon heart into Stephanie Fae Beauclair's tiny chest, making her the first infant to receive a cross-species heart transplant. Amid protests from animal-rights activists, Americans hung on every thump of her simian heart for three short weeks. When her weakened body went into kidney failure and finally gave out, Bailey vowed to try again. "We are remarkably encouraged by what we have learned from Baby...
After finishing last season with only a handful of healthy players sitting on his bench, Harvard coach Tommy Amaker made up for lost time on Friday night in the Crimson’s 87-77 win against Holy Cross, going to his reserves early and often...
...stories, as well as the stories from their long-suffering young wives’ points of view, make up the first and best half of the book. But “White Teeth” changes once Smith takes up the mantle of the new generation, the products of cross-cultural fertilization. Smith provides a snapshot of Archie’s daughter Irie writing feverishly in her diary. Her depiction of overwrought adolescence is pitch-perfect: “8:30 P.M. Millat just walked in. He’s sooo gorgeous but ultimately irritating! Tight jeans as usual. Doesn?...
...colors and tastes really cross over with the other senses. And a lot of times whenever I’m sober [I think], ‘Wow, people are going to think that sounds crazy,’” Wymer says. “But when I say that someone talks to me in cinnamon when I’m not as inhibited as much with alcohol, I’m not afraid to write...
...version of the civilian grand jury takes place early in the 120-day process and is much more open and balanced. In the hearing, the prosecution will lay out its prima facie case before a military judge, and the defense will have an opportunity to put in evidence and cross-examine witnesses. Out of that hearing, specific charges will be issued and recommended to an officer with the rank of general in Hasan's direct chain of command. That commanding general will decide on what charges will be made and where the trial will take place. All charges must...