Word: livered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...managed to fool the immune systems of three baboons into accepting pig hearts, for a short while at least. Using a similar technique, the British biotechnology company Imutran has produced a herd of 300 genetically altered swine. The company expects to transplant either a pig's heart or a liver into a human subject later this year...
...another point in the transcript, Wigand alleged that the company introduced into its cigarettes--at "a hundredfold the safety level"--a pipe-tobacco additive, coumarin, that it knew caused liver tumors in laboratory mice. And he described two threatening phone calls, one of which hinted at harm to his two children if he didn't "leave tobacco alone.'' B&W responded to the Daily News article by threatening legal action against CBS News for leaking it. A lawyer for the tobacco company warned that the network would be held responsible for any libel contained in the transcript...
DIED. DON CHERRY, 58, jazz musician; of liver failure; near Malaga, Spain. In the 1950s, the trumpeter experimented with "free jazz" sound and rhythm opposite the sax of Ornette Coleman. By the '60s, Cherry was a world-music pioneer, exploring influences so diverse--South Africa, Indonesia, Brazil, Bulgaria, the Middle East--he was dubbed "the musical Marco Polo...
DIED. PAOLO GUCCI, 64, hell-bent-for-leather grandson of the fashion empire founder, whose combative role in the company helped ignite a family feud that ended with the exodus of all the Guccis from the House of Gucci; of liver illness; in London. DIED. ROBERT FINCH, 70, manager for Richard Nixon's fumbled 1960 White House campaign, H.E.W. Secretary after Nixon finally took the Oval Office in 1968; of a heart attack; in Pasadena, California...
Education is almost as ill-served. Leon Brave Heart, like an estimated 50% of the tribe, had an alcohol problem; it caused him to drop out of school. But when his father died of cirrhosis of the liver and his mother was killed in a car crash, he dried out and returned to school. In San Francisco, he joined the Job Corps, specializing in cooking and culinary studies. Now the 22-year-old works at a tiny convenience store on the reservation while caring for 10 extended-family members who share a shack and a trailer. Brave Heart wants...