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...success of the procedure over the past three decades has created a new problem: rising demand. With far more patients in need than donors, researchers have high hopes for alternative treatments, including stem-cell therapy or heart pumps. Twenty-five years after Baby Fae, the learning continues...
Inspired by Shumway's success, the world's surgeons got back in the game. There were 172 transplants done in the U.S. alone in 1983, and as antirejection medicines improved in the 1980s, heart transplants grew more common. There were 1,647 in 1988. By 2007, the number had jumped to 2,210, according to the American Heart Association. As of May 2008, more than 85% of patients survived for a year...
...concurrently in the West End remained unbroken for a generation. He climbed dizzying heights of fame and prosperity, lived a long life (of which nearly six decades were in circumstances of great renown), and besides being a writer was a doctor and a spy, all with generous measures of success. His private life, however, was often tortured: the death of his mother when he was 8 (something he never got over), a cold upbringing in Kent by an unaffectionate uncle, a crippling stammer, a toxic marriage made against better judgment at the age of 43 and the lengths he went...
...while these shows were fun, they were far from educational. It wasn't until the debut of Sesame Street on Nov. 10, 1969, that TV became a medium tasked with developing young minds. Sesame Street's success wasn't exactly a surprise--about 2 million households tuned in to its premiere on PBS--but it was groundbreaking nonetheless. In addition to teaching kids ABCs and math--under the tutelage of an 8-ft.-tall yellow bird and an irritable garbage-can dweller--it was one of the first TV shows to depict an inclusive, racially harmonious neighborhood, prompting Mississippi...
...doing jobs. For example, I gained experience by confronting a character named Giancarlo Morillo, who had apparently roughed up my uncle (apparently I have an uncle). I did this by clicking a button. Morillo and I "fought." I hurt him more than he hurt me. Success: "You faced Giancarlo Morillo and forced him into seeing things your way." This seemed like a good way to get experience, so I explained my point of view to Morillo five more times. I went up a level. Nothing personal, Giancarlo. Strictly business...