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Transplanting a pig's heart into a human being sounds like an experiment only a mad scientist would dream up. But researchers at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina believe they are quite sane -- and getting closer to making such a bizarre operation possible. In the journal Nature Medicine last week, they reported overcoming some of the obstacles that Mother Nature has put in the way of transplanting organs between species. By altering the genetic makeup of a strain of pigs, Duke's team, led by Dr. Jeffrey Platt, was able to fool the immune systems of three baboons...
...militia's friends in Washington are muted nowadays, the zealots can count on one loud voice at the state level: Colorado state senator Charles Duke, 52, a fervent leader of a movement to reaffirm the 10th Amendment and strengthen states' rights. Local rights are, of course, a militia tenet. And Duke plays up those sympathies. At a rally last week, Duke lent weight to the scuttlebutt that the government was behind the Oklahoma bombing. Though criticized, he still warned darkly of "serious allegations of government involvement" that his office is probing. "More people die from skiing every year than...
...court-appointed investigator determined that tobacco heiress Doris Duke's death was hastened by stronger and more frequent doses of morphine, administered by her doctor, Charles F. Kivowitz. Duke, who died in 1993, left an estate of $1.2 billion and no natural heirs. The report also detailed Duke's butler and companion Bernard Lafferty's spending of hundreds of thousands of dollars in estate funds since he was named co-executor...
Jackson W. Carroll, Professor Divinity School, Duke University Durham, North Carolina...
...pantheon of immortal lovers--Tristram and Isolde, Romeo and Juliet, Neil and Angelica--we now may add Harvard's own Rebecca Boggs '95 and her fiance (Duke University's) Michael Wenthe. Or so a recent, cloying profile of the couple in The Boston Globe would have us believe...