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...such procedures, which remain experimental. The team of scientists plans to engineer a hybrid larynx as their next project, which may take a few years, according to stem-cell specialist Professor Anthony Hollander of the University of Bristol. Reconstructing large, complex organs such as the heart and the liver will be more difficult, he says, not to mention expensive...
There could be nobody better suited to describe the hilarious, improbable triumph of Robert Bolaņo than Bolaņo himself, which is a terrible shame because he's dead. At the time of his death, from liver disease, in 2003, Bolaņo was a major writer in the Spanish-speaking world but virtually unknown and untranslated in English. Why that should be is not much of a mystery. Bolaņo, who was born in Chile and spent most of his life in Mexico and Spain, is a difficult, angry, self-reflexive writer who lived an erratic and occasionally unpleasant life...
...After his death in 1938 (of liver disease, believed to be caused by heavy drinking), the reform program he had enacted - most important, secularism and the concept of a monoethnic state - became an official ideology called Kemalism. It is enshrined in the constitution as an inviolable founding principle. Atatürk's mausoleum in Ankara has become a hallowed place for his followers. Last year hundreds of thousands of secularists staged an antigovernment rally in front...
...prose turned out to be better than his poetry. In 1998 the publication of The Savage Detectives vaulted him into the first rank of Spanish-language literature, right up there with all those writers he had mocked as an infrarealista. But by then he was already suffering from the liver disease that would kill him at age 50. He had all but completed 2666 when he died...
...longer than ever at his Shake Shack. But business is off 5% at two of his nearby, higher-end eateries, both of which are on the first floor of the New York headquarters of financial firm Credit Suisse. One of the restaurants, Eleven Madison Park, features a duck-liver terrine with pineapple and pearl onions on a rum-raisin brioche. The appetizer costs an additional $20 on top of the restaurant's normal $88 tasting menu. But few are buying. "I call it the AIG effect," says Meyer. "Even if you haven't lost your job, you don't want...