Word: transplantation
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...safety is an illusion, and so is paradise. Speaking before another Chautauqua audience this day, Dr. Christiaan Barnard, the surgeon who performed the first heart transplant, says that it is inhuman and arrogant for doctors to prolong life artificially if nothing but pain or coma lies ahead for the patient. His predominantly gray-haired audience cheers. A moment later, one of his listeners falls ill. As he is carried out by ambulance attendants, he gives a V sign to the crowd...
...renovate the Houses without engendering a groundswell of student dissent. In fact, reflecting on the newly identified destructive properties of ivy, one such plan has occurred to us, and we call on the University to carry it out at once. Why not uproot Harvard's ivy and transplant it (gingerly-remember the stuff dissolves cement at the touch) to walls more suited for the tendril's secretion; the Pentagon, the Yale Bowl, and the Lampoon Castle come quickly to mind. Harvard would thus keep the Houses from crumbling and at the same time comply with student's demands that...
DIVORCED. Christiaan Barnard, 59, South African surgeon who performed the world's first successful human heart transplant; and Barbara Barnard, 31, boutique owner and daughter of a Johannesburg industrialist; after twelve years of marriage, two sons; in Cape Town. She received custody of the children...
...Marshall Goldman, an economist who is associate director of Harvard's Russian Research Center: "It was like a heart transplant in which the system rejects the foreign body. The factories simply were not working...
...variety of ailments that have been suddenly turning up in young homosexual men, according to last week's New England Journal of Medicine. Known to doctors as "opportunistic diseases," they strike when the body's natural immunological defenses are down. Previously they were seen mainly in organ-transplant and cancer patients. Among such medical opportunists are pneumocystic pneumonia, a parasitic lung infection that has killed 60% of its victims, and herpes simplex and cytomegalovirus (CMV), two commonplace microorganisms that are generally brushed off by healthy people...