Word: davids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doctors remain cautious. "We're not out of the woods yet," said Raudrant. But the boy at least has a chance at a better fate than another ( immune-deficient David: the American "bubble boy" who spent nearly all his twelve years of life in isolation before he died in Houston...
...purposes is a promising but highly controversial field. Doctors have transplanted fetal organs into infants and used fetal cells to treat Parkinson's disease in adults. Right-to-life advocates object strongly to such procedures unless the fetus comes from a mother who has had a miscarriage. But to David's parents, the issue was clear- cut: only aborted fetuses were available, and without the transplanted cells their boy would have had virtually no chance of survival...
...afternoon of Oct. 18, 1988, two University of Nevada-Las Vegas basketball players, David Butler and Moses Scurry, walked through the casino at Caesars Palace and out to the pool to have lunch with a man they knew as Sam Perry. As Perry rose to greet the two, he drew a wad of cash from his pocket and peeled off a bill for each of them. "I gave them a hundred bucks, so what?" Perry told Art Ross, a professional coach who was sitting with Perry. "Everybody does it. It keeps them out of trouble...
...nightmare began Thanksgiving weekend in 1976, when Adams was picked up by David Harris, 16, after running out of gas. The two went to a drive-in movie. Adams claims Harris dropped him off at his motel room a little before 10 p.m., but Harris said the two tooled around Dallas with Adams driving until well after midnight. When they were stopped by a policeman, Harris claimed, he hunched down in the passenger seat as Adams pulled out a .22-cal. pistol and shot officer Robert Wood dead...
...girl (the tonier papers left it at "socialite") and hunted down her many eminent admirers, including Sunday Times Editor Andrew Neil (quickly dubbed "Randy Andy") and Observer Editor Donald Trelford ("Dirty Don"), as well as Sports Minister Colin Moynihan, who escorted Bordes to the Conservative Winter Ball. Tory M.P. David Shaw, it turned out, had been so taken with her talents that, with the help of fellow Tory M.P. Henry Bellingham, he hired Bordes as a researcher in the House...