Word: livered
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DIED. JACK CLAYTON, 73, film director; from heart and liver trouble; in Slough, England. Clayton's work ranged from the unblinking social realism of Room at the Top (1959), for which he received an Oscar nomination, to the supernatural period gloom of The Innocents...
...will be those applications that save lives or promote public welfare. Exotic technologies, like virtual reality, can lower the overall cost of complex medical procedures. A VR-like ``data fusion system'' developed by Medical Media Systems in Hanover, New Hampshire, enables doctors to re-create remote organs, like the liver, and ``watch'' the endoscopic removal of a tumor. Tests on animals are under way now; human trials begin in July. Even at $80,000, the system is cost efficient...
DIED. GERALD DURRELL, 70, British conservationist and best-selling writer; of complications from a liver transplant; in St. Helier on the Channel island of Jersey. The self- described "champion of small uglies," Durrell founded the Jersey Zoological Park in 1958, where he bred endangered species to return to the wild-a controversial but ultimately effective program. Encouraged by his novelist brother Lawrence, he wrote a series of witty, educational musings on his life's work, such as The Overloaded Ark (1953) and the 1956 memoir My Family and Other Animals...
DIED. GERALD DURRELL, 70, British animal lover, conservationist and best- selling writer about the creature kingdom; of complications from a 1994 liver transplant; in St. Helier on the Channel Island of Jersey. As a self- described ``champion of small uglies,'' Durrell dedicated his life to the preservation of wildlife. In 1958 he founded the Jersey Zoological Park, where he bred endangered species such as the Mauritius pink pigeon to return to the wild. Encouraged by his novelist brother Lawrence, Durrell (pronounced Durl) began writing about his life's work, filling books such as The Overloaded Ark (1953) with witty anecdotes...
Daynes believes that the French press is "a little overly excited." He warns that high doses of DHEA could cause side effects, such as dramatic ; changes in the liver. "It takes on a different color," he says, "and may be more susceptible to cancer." DHEA should not be used by the public, he urges, "until more is known about its effects on the body...