Word: doctor
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Recently a doctor grafted a portion of a pig's eye on the eyeball of a blind boy, Alfred Lemonowicz of Paterson, N.J. According to reports the operation was partly successful--the young boy is able to see slightly. At any rate, the attendant publicity has secured the young man a contract to appear in vaudeville with...
...Monica Lewinsky. Five weeks have gone by since your life was torn to pieces, and you and your mother are still holed up in her Watergate duplex, with a permanent TV stakeout on the street below. Your lawyer, William Ginsburg, won't let you leave except for the occasional doctor's visit or maximum-security dinner out, and he won't let you talk on the phone. It's jail! And so you pace the curved, windowless corridors, work out in the gym and page Ginsburg a couple of times a day; an old family friend, he has turned into...
...says. The deep interest remains, however, and he plans two more novels about the African diaspora, one set in 17th century Africa, the other in contemporary Liberia. For now, he's delighted with the Academy Award fuss about The Sweet Hereafter (in which he appears briefly as a local doctor). Director Egoyan, with whom he worked for two years advising on the script, overflows with praise: "One of the greatest living novelists." That may be gratifying, but Banks knows there's still more work to do. He'll quit teaching after this semester and move with his wife to their...
...doctor thought he was one for the record books. His middle-aged parents welcomed him as an unexpected 8-lb. 15-oz. bundle of joy. Delivered by C-section in a suburban Los Angeles hospital, Baby Billy, as he was nicknamed by the local paper, is a medical miracle--the product of an embryo frozen for 7 1/2 years. For a few days last week, Billy, whose parents prefer anonymity, was hailed as the oldest human embryo ever brought to term. Then the bubble burst...
...Nicholaysen] is dying because a doctor at Harvard University Health Services failed to take Mrs. Nicholaysen's complaints of a breast lump seriously," said Andrew C. Meyer, an attorney with Lubin & Meyer, the firm representing Nicholaysen, in a statement yesterday...