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There are several more complications to clear away before surgeons can start stitching pig hearts into people. For one thing, viruses that normally attack only swine might literally piggyback a ride into people during transplant surgery, leading to new diseases in humans. Yet transplant doctors are optimistic that such technical obstacles can be surmounted. Then it will be up to the patients to decide how they feel about having a pig's heart beating in their breast. --Reported by Alice Park/ New York
...railroading today, both in dollars and distance. Commodities such as grain, forest products and coal are still the underpinning of the rails, but railways are nibbling more into consumer products such as Nikes and Chevrolets. Rails transport two-thirds of the new cars from factories to dealers and piggyback 6.5 million truck trailers a year...
...free- market economies?" No one even tried. "Dole was right," says a Clinton adviser, "and the argument's going to be made again now that we want new money for Yeltsin. The question is whether we'll have the guts to make the case ourselves or whether we'll piggyback on Congress" -- assuming, of course, that Congress prefers the third rail to root canal...
...copy-cat syndrome," Johnson said. "After that guy from Austria started to call people 'Korean Bitch,' other people started to piggyback...
...years ago, a piggyback ride from saucy Sassy might have been bumpy. At its 1988 start-up, the magazine's frank material -- the pros and cons of virginity, for example -- drew the fire of the Moral Majority, and advertisers turned shy. They returned after the magazine softened its controversial profile...