Word: livered
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...nurse, I know that the human body is a well-integrated unit, each organ depending on other body parts for perfect functioning. If a vital organ such as the heart, lung or liver gives out, the support systems are weakened as well. Patients are unrealistic when they expect every operation to be a medical miracle. But doctors are equally unrealistic when they try to play God. Beatrice Warren Aptos, Calif. Women...
Perhaps so, says Jing Cheng, but not in his industry. Eating lunch by a man-made lake in the shape of a human liver, Cheng says the potential in his business is boundless: "It's very possible that in our lifetimes we'll find a cure for cancer." He pauses and then smiles. "And maybe we'll do it right here in China." --By Bill Powell/Beijing and Sonja Steptoe/Los Angeles
Gould, who was Agassiz professor of zoology and a professor of geology, died in May 2002, ten weeks after being diagnosed with a lung cancer that had spread to his liver, brain, and other organs...
...tables. Dipped in a plate of first-rate olive oil, it could easily turn into a meal. But that would deny the pleasure of the restaurant’s antipasto plate ($14), with thin slivers of cured meat, chunks of aged Parmesan, and one decadent, silkily rich chicken liver crostini...
...feel was terrible. You could taste the sliminess. The smell wasn't lovely either." Of course, in Blumenthal's kitchen it's often hard to tell the difference between wrong and right. Among his signature dishes: snail porridge, salmon poached with licorice jelly and--after failed experiments with goose liver, parsley, garlic and other ingredients--smoked-bacon-and-egg ice cream. "It may not sound better than the foie gras," he says, "but there are scientific reasons why it works...