Word: mentored
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...first physician to perform a successful heart transplant in the U.S.; in Palo Alto, Calif. His first transplant patient, in 1968, died of complications after 14 days. In the years that followed, most transplants ended in lethal infections or organ rejection soon after surgery. But Shumway, a surgical mentor to Tennessee Senator Bill Frist, pressed on as others were giving up. With an impressive Stanford University team, he found ways to use smaller doses of toxic antirejection drugs; was an early proponent of a safer alternative, cyclosporine; and dramatically improved transplant survival rates...
...exercise every day, I work hard every day and I sleep well every day. And I think [my mind is] still functioning, although I'm not as active as before. But enough to fight an election." LEE KUAN YEW, Singapore's Minister Mentor, announcing his plans to stand for office in the next general elections. The city-state's 82-year-old founder has run in 12 national polls since...
...other end of the modernist spectrum is the bomb, and when Alice flies to Japan to meet up with her mentor, she is forced to confront its legacy. Visiting the Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, she is stopped in her tracks not by the wall clock frozen forever at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 1945, or the array of appalling statistics (73,884 dead), but a single written testimonial which makes time cease for her: "From the window I saw my mother in the garden, picking aubergines for our lunch. She burst into flames." Jones' novel works in much...
...already today more than half of our students pursue a significant international experience before graduation. To promote a deeper level of scientific literacy, we are not only planning, but we have also begun to teach parts of a fundamentally new science curriculum, the first of our 'portal' courses. To mentor and support our students more effectively, we are overhauling completely the structures of academic advising in the College. And of course we have continued to talk, argue, and engage with one another, ever more deeply, about the importance of undergraduate education...
Gong Li, mainland China's first superstar actress, is a toughie. Something in her glance, her posture, her soul knows that passion is pain, to be dished out or endured. It's an iron will that directors?starting with Zhang Yimou, her mentor and onetime companion?love to see broken...