Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Standing hunched over a plastic lectern at the right side of the stage in Toronto's Royal York Hotel was Canada's silver-haired new Prime Minister, John Turner, 55. Across from him was Brian Mulroney, 45, a jut-jawed businessman from Quebec who heads the opposition Conservative Party. In the final of three televised debates last week, the leaders of Canada's two largest political groups were sharing the spotlight with the New Democratic Party's Edward Broadbent, who has placed a distant third in the polls. With little to lose, Broadbent was the most...
...technique, developed by Dr. Howard Green of Harvard Medical School, has been used on six other burn patients, none with injuries as serious as those of the Selby boys. Says Plastic Surgeon G. Gregory Gallico III of Massachusetts General Hospital and the Shriners Burns Institute, both in Boston, and head of the team that treated the brothers: "These boys had no other hope for survival, so we agreed to try." That the experimental treatment could even be attempted is a tribute to the heroic efforts of the emergency room at Memorial Hospital of Natrona County, Wyo., where the children were...
...patients: Cultured skin, derived from the victim, would not be rejected by the body's immune system. Another major advance came when Green discovered that a certain bacterial enzyme could remove skin cultures from a flask in entire sheets by loosening the bond between the cells and the plastic surface of the container...
...tissue, having no dermis. The Boston team cautions that it will take years to assess the success of cultured skin, but, says Gallico, "it appears permanent and durable." Still, Jamie and Glen Selby "shouldn't go out and play football," warns Green. The brothers face more skin grafts, plastic surgery and physical therapy, but their most important battle is behind them: they are alive. "The logistics of skin reproduction as reported are truly remark able," says Dr. Jack Fisher of the University of California, San Diego, in an editorial in the New England Journal...
...Sears plastic is held by 70% of households with incomes of $50,000 or more. The typical Sears credit customer earns $34,000, about $3,000 above the U.S. average for a family of four. A survey of millionaires by two professors at the University of Georgia showed that the most frequently held credit card in that group is not American Express or Diners Club but the Sears card. One of the first customers of the financial center at the Sears store in Cupertino, Calif., in the heart of the Silicon Valley, was a man who opened a $ 1.9 million...