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Cowgill, originally trained as an academic in English literature, is a pioneer in one of the world's newest and most humane industries: the specialized treatment of torture victims. So far there are two centers devoted exclusively to such survivors, the year-old Canadian organization in Toronto and Copenhagen's Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims, founded in 1982. A third center may be opened in Minnesota. Last month, Minnesota Governor Rudy Perpich, before visiting the Copenhagen center, named a 20-member commission to study the matter and report...
...faces on Mount Rushmore, but Benjamin Franklin has a position in American mythology that could hardly be loftier. Canny diplomat and dispenser of moral apothegms, scientist and pioneer in electrical experiment and theory, Franklin is everyone's favorite patriot, the kindly uncle of the American Revolution. There was, however, a dark side to the familiar beaming countenance, an aspect that might have come from one of Freud's case histories of an overheated family crucible. This provocative and enlightening account overturns the legend by examining William, Benjamin's only son, born out of wedlock in 1731. Once his father...
...Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland, by Martin/Soderstrom/Matteson Architects, manages to be formal and dignified, and yet lively. It accommodates crowds but also yields intimate spaces with the help of different levels, a colonnade and a fountain to splash...
DIED. Martin Luther King Sr., 84, pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church from 1931 to 1975, father of the slain civil rights leader and winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace, and in his own right a pioneer in improving race relations; of a heart attack; in Atlanta. A sharecropper's son, "Daddy King," as he was affectionately known, led several early local crusades for civil rights, including in 1936 an unprecedented-and dangerous-voting-rights march. During a life marked by personal tragedies, he lost, in addition to his namesake assassinated in 1968, another...
...count the number of animal-to-human transplants on one hand and they have all been totally hopeless," says Professor of Surgery Lawrence H. Cohn, another heart transplant pioneer. The implantation of a foreign organ from a different species into a human causes continuous, massive rejection even though the organs are functionally similar, he says. Doctors are barely able to repress rejection in human-to-human transplants, he added...