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...consumer trust, which the Japanese have deservedly won and GM now has an opportunity to win back. Inspired by Saturn, GM may be able to turn the once derogatory epithet "domestic" into a true competitive advantage. "The Japanese have been worried about this for some time. It scares the liver out of them," says David Cole, director of the Office for the Study of Automotive Transportation at the University of Michigan...
...result, Murray switched his area ofresearch from skin transplants to kidneytransplants, and over the next 20 years, paved theway for the transplantation of all solid organs,such as the kidney, liver, heart, pancreas, lungand intestines...
...could such a mistake occur? Explained Reeves, an 80-year-old retired surgeon who was elected coroner 26 years ago: "There was nothing to autopsy. It was just a charred mass of tissue, which was definitely a body because I could identify intestines and liver. Everything else was gone." He admits he was "depressed" to learn about his error, but is braced for any criticism. "I'll tell you what I'll do if it gets too nasty," Reeves says. "I'll quit...
...cancer among veterans and an increase in birth defects in their children. Julio Gonzales, 42, who served in Viet Nam for six months in 1969, feels sure that the series of disorders he has suffered since 1971, which include cancer of the bladder and problems with his kidneys and liver, was caused by Agent Orange. "The CDC can't see the forest for the trees," he says...
...population. But when the investigators tried to do this, says Dr. Hoffman, they could not reliably identify the soldiers who had received the highest doses. So instead the researchers adopted a more indirect approach, examining the incidence of six different cancers, including soft-tissue sarcoma and a kind of liver malignancy, that had been tentatively linked to herbicide exposure. Since the CDC settled for an indirect study, many veterans believe the results are of questionable value...