Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unprecedented procedure was performed by two prominent physicians in Lyons: Dr. Jean-Louis Touraine, an immunologist at Edouard-Herriot Hospital, and Dr. Daniel Raudrant, an obstetrician at Hotel Dieu Hospital. The doctors wanted to treat David while he was still in his mother's womb because they thought if the procedure was done early, it would have better odds of succeeding. They took 7 cc of liquid, containing about 16 million immune cells from the liver and thymus of two aborted fetuses, and injected the material into David's umbilical cord. After he was born, David received an injection...
...aborted fetuses for medical purposes is a promising but highly controversial field. Doctors have transplanted fetal organs into infants and used fetal cells to treat Parkinson's disease in adults. Right-to-life advocates object strongly to such procedures unless the fetus comes from a mother who has had a miscarriage. But to David's parents, the issue was clear- cut: only aborted fetuses were available, and without the transplanted cells their boy would have had virtually no chance of survival...
...paid," says former UNLV player Eldridge Hudson. "If a kid is busting his ass on the court, if somebody wants to buy him a car, let him have it." Hudson always hoped to share his good fortune with his family. "Me being a star, I thought my mother deserved a Mercedes." While in school, Hudson said, he had a private apartment and drove a Mazda RX7. How did he afford it? "Easy," he says. Hudson, 25, played basketball for a time overseas. Today he wears $450 amber-tinted sunglasses and a diamond stud in his left ear. He still talks...
Other telescam artists pretend to be travel agents offering extraordinary discounts. In Illinois, Scott Walker and his mother started World Travel Vacation Brokers in their garage, mailing flyers to consumers around the country that promised Hawaiian vacations for just $29. Gullible customers who called in their orders received a voucher entitling them to book a trip through the agency, but at a cost of several hundred dollars more. By the time FTC investigators took the company to court, the outfit had taken in more than $6 million...
Waiting in the Columbus airport were about 100 people, including Adams' mother Mildred, a retired supervisor at a home for retarded children, and friends from her Baptist church with yellow ribbons around their necks. Adams plowed through the crowd to hug his mother and then the teary-eyed Morris. At the press conference, Adams' sister whispered in his ear that Texas had decided not to retry him. He squeezed his mother's hand so tightly his knuckles turned white...