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DIED. HAMILTON NAKI, 78, South African surgical pioneer with no formal training who was a central member of the team, led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard, that performed the first human heart transplant--yet went unrecognized for some three decades because of apartheid restrictions on blacks holding jobs deemed appropriate only for whites; of a heart attack; in Langa, South Africa. A gardener at the University of Cape Town, Naki got his start as a lab assistant when a doctor needed a hand while operating on a giraffe. Naki's skills ultimately led Barnard to request his help in the landmark...
...PIONEER TRADITION?...
Bruce E. Hobbs, the school’s director of public relations, said that BYU-Idaho remains firmly rooted in the “pioneer tradition...
DIED. PAUL KEENE, 94, a pioneer of the organic-food movement in the U.S.; in Mechanicsburg, Pa. Starting in the mid-1940s, when the government was urging farmers to use new chemicals for efficiency, until the sale of his farm in 2000, Keene ran Pennsylvania's Walnut Acres Farm, a hub for vegetables, free-range chicken, peanut butter and other foods produced without pesticides or chemical fertilizers and sold widely in health-food stores across...
...diamond jewelry made by many brand-name designers can put the pieces forever out of reach. Items in Chanel's fine jewelry range usually come with six-figure price tags, while Dior's Provocante white gold?and?diamond necklace sells for around $70,000. Now Vivienne Westwood, the British pioneer of punk fashion, is designing a line of "affordable" jewelry called Hardcore Diamonds, her first rock collection. The pieces, available in Westwood stores from July, are for the mass market. The characteristically unconventional collection includes white gold-and-diamond safety pins, as well as paper clips, arrows and her trademark...