Word: rubins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jack Rubin Princeton...
...successful surgery was an encouraging example of medical détente that began last summer when Dr. Albert Rubin, director of the hospital's Rogosin Kidney Center, visited Moscow's Institute of Transplantation, which is headed by the prominent surgeon Dr. Valery Shumakov. The two doctors agreed that exchanging information and technology could lead to improved care for kidney patients in both countries. Shumakov volunteered, as a first step, to send a kidney to American doctors. (There are more kidneys available in the U.S.S.R. than in the U.S. because there are fewer legal obstacles to obtaining organs...
...after surgery, Serrano's new organ had already produced some five liters (5¼ quarts) of urine and seemed to be functioning well. By week's end Serrano was joking that despite his Muscovite kidney, "I don't speak Russian yet." His doctors were equally elated. Rubin, for one, envisioned a day when organs are regularly shuttled across the seas to fulfill needs wherever they exist. Said he: "What better way to bring the world together than through medicine...
...Yitzhak Rubin, 40, a middle-level Defense Ministry official, was sentenced to a two-year prison term for accepting bribes from businessmen dealing with the ministry. Four lesser employees received one-or two-year sentences on the same charges. Three of the bribe-givers were also convicted...
...Born. To Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter, 39, former middleweight boxer whose conviction for murdering three men in a tavern in 1966 became a cause célèbre, and Mae Thelma Carter, 37: their second child, first son; in Paterson, NJ. Name: Raheem Rubin. Carter and his co-defendant John Artis won the right to a new trial last March but were found guilty again...