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These are the same pranksters who four years ago made a rowdy success of the lovable Gilbert and Sullivan warhorse The Pirates of Penzance. Then as now, Papp was the producer, Wilford Leach the director, William Elliott the music supervisor and conductor, and Pop Singer Linda Ronstadt was boss soprano in charge of provoking doleful predictions that she could not possibly handle an operatic lead...
...Then Linda Griffin snuck a quick one past Harvard goalie Toni Tease--subbing for starter Tracy Kimmel--at the start of the third period and, all of a sudden, the lead was cut to three...
...turns out that before placing a baboon heart into the chest of Baby Fae, doctors at Loma Linda had not sought a human heart for transplant. That fact betrays their primary aim: to advance a certain line of research. As much as her life became dear to them, Baby Fae was to be their means...
...altar of science: the Tuskegee experiment, in which a group of black men with syphilis were deliberately left untreated for 40 years; the Willowbrook experiment, in which retarded children were injected with hepatitis virus; and the Brooklyn study in which elderly patients were injected with live cancer cells. Loma Linda was at the other extreme. Here, far from being at war with the therapeutic, the experimental was almost identical with it. But not quite. The baboon heart was ever so slightly more experimental, more useful to science (or so the doctors thought), more risky for Baby Fae. If it were...
...Loma Linda doctors did not. Hence the unease. One does not have to impute venal motives-a desire for glory or a lust for publicity-to wonder about the ethics of the choice. The motive was science, the research imperative. Priority was accorded to the claims of the future, of children not yet stricken, not yet even born...