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...working with animals and plants -- usually for the ultimate benefit of humans. A considerable amount of AIDS research uses mice with immune systems containing transplanted human genes. Scientists in England and at Washington University have produced a line of transgenic pigs whose cells produce human proteins that can suppress the immune response. Hearts, livers and other organs from these animals could, in theory, be transplanted into human patients without being attacked and destroyed...
Most damaging was the audiotape of a therapy session the brothers had with Dr. Jerome Oziel on Dec. 11, 1989. On that 61-minute tape, which the defense struggled for three years to suppress, Lyle said they had killed Kitty to put her "out of her misery" over her loveless marriage, making a joint decision that Jose "should be killed" because of "what he's doing to my mother." Hoping to discredit Oziel, defense lawyers offered extensive testimony from / the married therapist's former lover. "The defense proved that Dr. Oziel was a philanderer," Bozanich said. "They did not prove...
...JERSEY -- Some savvy black politicos in New Jersey are suggesting an explanation for why no one has found evidence that Edward Rollins attempted to suppress the black vote in the state's gubernatorial election. They say that Rollins probably did try to do what he originally boasted of, but got flimflammed by black con men who promised to help hold down the black vote, walked out with his cash and vanished...
...Connecticut last April, with five friends from a Buddhist youth group assisting him, Binh Gia Pham doused himself with gasoline, flicked a lighter and exploded into flames. The 43-year-old immigrant was protesting attempts by the Vietnamese government to suppress Buddhism...
...days after telling reporters about spending $500,000 to suppress black- voter turnout during the New Jersey gubernatorial race, Republican strategist Edward Rollins gave a deposition to the New Jersey State Democratic Committee, which has filed a civil suit against the campaign of Governor-elect Christine Todd Whitman. Rollins said Friday his original story was a lie, concocted as a "head game" with rival political consultant James Carville...