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...slice of life from the real world. Make that The Real World, MTV's new 13-week documentary series that puts a '90s spin on An American Family, PBS's 1973 cinema-verite chronicle of the troubled Loud family. The producers selected seven young New Yorkers (one a transplant from Alabama) ranging in age from 19 to 25, put them together in a furnished loft in SoHo and set the cameras rolling for three months. The idea was to keep a video diary of their interactions, altercations and (possibly) romantic entanglements -- to see, as the show puts it, "what happens...
Last year's speakers were Dr. Jonas Salk, who developed the first polio vaccine in 1954; Professor of Surgery emeritus Dr. Joseph Murray, co-winner of the 1990 Noble Prize in physiology or medicine for performing the first kidney transplant in 1954; and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Dr. Louis Sullivan...
...state's Economic Development Corporation, which has branches from Brussels to Tokyo, like to point out that 60% of all public high school students in Utah study a foreign language. And the state has done well by vigorously pushing its language skills as an attraction to potential foreign-transplant factories and offices...
...time Osserman was accepted for the procedure at Yale, all federally supported research involving the transplant of tissue from aborted fetuses into humans was halted while a presidential panel weighed the therapy's ethical implications. In December 1988, after waiting several months, Yale decided to go ahead with Osserman's operation based on the panel's recommendation that the moratorium be lifted. Nearly all of the handful of transplants performed for Parkinson's have produced dramatic results, but for Osserman it was too late: he died within months. Says Yale team leader Eugene Redmond: "He may have been the first...
...defy the Administration by overturning that ban. The House has already passed such legislation, and a majority of Senators seem ready to go along. But the proponents may not have enough votes to override an expected veto from Bush, who so far shows no sign of relenting on the transplant issue...