Word: sanes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Transplanting a pig's heart into a human being sounds like an experiment only a mad scientist would dream up. But researchers at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina believe they are quite sane -- and getting closer to making such a bizarre operation possible. In the journal Nature Medicine last week, they reported overcoming some of the obstacles that Mother Nature has put in the way of transplanting organs between species. By altering the genetic makeup of a strain of pigs, Duke's team, led by Dr. Jeffrey Platt, was able to fool the immune systems of three baboons...
...What sane woman could possibly resist a man who quoted, in a heartfelt declaration of love, lyrics from one of David Cassidy's--while he was with the Partridge family--songs? But David Cassidy notwithstanding, the relationship succeeded because they lived apart...
...control proponent, and North Carolina's Fred Heineman, a Gingrich Revolution conservative and ex-police chief. Allan Parachini, spokesman for the a.c.l.u. of Southern California and an NIJ adviser, anticipates that somewhere down the line it may pose privacy issues. But even he exhibits guarded enthusiasm. "Anyone who is sane is interested in trying to find ways to have fewer guns on the streets," he says. "The research should continue...
...SANE program in Tulsa was also credited with helping the District Attorney's office increase its number of successful rape prosecutions...
...Massachusetts SANE program will be funded through grants from the state's Department of Public Health and the Massachusetts Committee on Criminal Justice...