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Because there are no easy outs from the second circle of hell, that's why. Those stuck there have three choices: getting a personality transplant, being extravagantly generous--buy everyone in your entryway a gram of coke!--or teaching yourself solitaire. As the president of a final club once remarked to me, "The meek might inherit the earth, but they won't get punched for the Porc...
...have a single university hospital," notes former Harvard Dean Robert Ebert, whereas Harvard has affiliations with 13. These unexcelled facilities have helped generate such breakthroughs as John Enders' growing of the polio virus in a test tube, the first invitro fertilization of a human egg, the first successful kidney transplant and pioneering lab methods for growing skin and bone...
Using these engineering techniques, scientists hope to engineer a new line of antiviral agents to combat AIDS to supplement the engineered drug acyclovir already in use. Other synthetic drugs in use today include cyclosporin, a drug used in transplant patients and aspirin, Corey said...
...Improving Relationships." Psychologist Nanolla Yazdani leads spirited talks on psychology and decision making. "You have the guts to break the law," he admonishes. "I want you to have the guts to break your bad habits too." Says he: "The closest thing to what we do is a brain transplant...
...boost circulation. Implanted in animals, the pouches, which may be located almost anywhere in the body, have enhanced blood flow as much as 20% for eight hours. Stephenson believes that such auxiliary pumps could reduce the need for risky open-heart surgery. They might also obviate the need for transplants for patients whose hearts are weak but not completely failing. Implanting such a pumping chamber would be simpler and cheaper than performing a heart transplant, and since the borrowed muscle is the individual's own, it would not be rejected. Patients might even benefit psychologically, notes Stephenson, from knowing that...