Word: transplanter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Democrats lost an Alabama Senate seat when Richard Shelby switched parties. Now, with Howell Heflin stepping down, they could lose the other. But Bedford, who underwent a 1990 bone-marrow transplant to combat cancer, is a fighter with the experience to win. Campaigning on a family-and-faith platform, he opposes school vouchers and supports federal programs that help children...
...fourth straight election, Democrats are not running an opponent against Spence, the 13-term incumbent whose district is dominated by affluent--and Republican--suburbs. But Spence, a former Navy officer and the survivor of a double lung transplant, won't know until after Election Day whether House balance of power will allow him to remain head of its National Security Committee...
...players. Later, Torre expressed his love, over and over, for his real family: his wife Alice and their 11-month-old, his older sisters Rae and Sister Marguerite and, on a phone line back to New York City, his brother Frank at Columbia-Presbyterian hospital awaiting a heart transplant...
...decades, the best minds in immunology had failed to solve this riddle: Why did the immune system evolve to reject something--an organ transplant--that didn't become common until the 20th century? In the 1970s a couple of outsiders, working in relative isolation in Australia, hit on the answer. Australian Peter Doherty, who trained as a veterinary surgeon, and Dr. Rolf Zinkernagel, a Swiss specialist in tropical diseases, figured out that the rejection response was actually a by-product of the body's basic virus-defense system...
...brutes, to say nothing of the "liberal" Undergraduate Council or President Clinton. It seems as if Peninsula is still fighting the Cold War, making cracks about Clinton "guarding the hallowed halls of Oxford University from a Vietcong sneak attack" and the council's political slicksters opting under a hypothetical transplant to "communist" China "to curry favor with the butchers of Beijing." This is how out there the Peninsula is, how so removed it is from the modern political scene that it cannot comprehend the fundamentally conservative policies of the United States in the 1990s. Perhaps these reactionaries would prefer...