Word: elephantitis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A more pitiful existence than that lived by John Merrick, the Elephant Man, could not be imagined. Born with a deteriorating disease that infected his body with gruesome deformities, he was treated by Victorian England first as a freak show amusement and then as a society oddity. His story is...
National development is not supposed to be a juggernaut demanding the sacrifice of freedom of speech and justice. What developing countries cannot afford is not the luxury of a critical press, but the white elephant of an inept or corrupt government. Only a critical press can keep the government on...
At 7,000 Ibs., she was not Dr. David Gershuni's everyday kind of patient. But the orthopedic surgeon, working early one morning in a large barn at the San Diego Wild Animal Park, was unfazed by his jumbo task: to place a cast around the fractured leg of...
Assisted by some 20 people, Gershuni first made an incision in the elephant's tough skin just below her knee, using a foot-long saw instead of a scalpel. Then, with an electric drill, he cut a hole through one of the fractured bones and shoved in a 12...
John and David are the kind of people that make Joseph Zieba, attorney at law and Republican county chairman, stop chewing his gum for just a minute and smile his Hoover smile. Zieba's been getting a lot of calls this year from Democrats, giving the gray inflatable elephant perched...