Word: organ
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Organ transplants...
...improving. Doctors successfully treated a mild case of tissue rejection a few weeks after the ground-breaking 11-hour operation at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The problem did not recur, and by the end of July the new liver had tripled in size, matching a healthy human organ. But late last month a fever set in, followed by an infection -- possibly caused by an injection of X ray-sensitive dye. The liver began to fail, and then, within a week, though the infection had started to subside, the man was dead of massive bleeding in the brain...
...sang like Bing Crosby. More important, he looked like Crosby sang: dark, romantic, utterly at ease. Those seductive glissandi and buh-buh-buh-boos made him a housewife's heart murmur and the ideal straight man for a crew-cut ba- ba-baboon, Jerry Lewis -- "the organ grinder and the monkey," they were called. In the early '50s the duo owned movies, TV, nightclubs, stage shows, and the singer had hit records (That's Amore, Memories Are Made of This) on the side. When they split up in 1956, he segued smoothly into leading-man roles. He Rat-Packed...
...year-old man recovering inside, the choice had been between life and death. In an 11-hour operation, the unidentified patient received a new liver to replace his own, ravaged by hepatitis B. Since the virus would have also destroyed a replacement human liver, doctors transplanted the organ from a baboon...
Sophomore year, 1990: A bewildered transfer student, having survived the orientation week "death march" to the Radcliffe Quad for the frozen-pizza picnic, stumbles into Memorial Church for some soothing organ music before going off to the first of five incomprehensible science courses...