Word: transplanter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...figure is Uncle Duke, the Thompson-inspired ne'er-do-well of the strip whose exploits have included countless drug trips, a brief stint as Governor of American Samoa and a classic turn as dean of Caribbean medical school, where students pioneered the transplant of a liberal heart into a conservative body (doctors were sure it was liberal heart because the body had been pulled from a Volvo). I often turn to Duke, my Trudeau talisman, for inspiration when writing papers, studying Greek or just seeking the meaning of life. For in my opinion, the answers...
...obsolete furnishes his rooms with daguerreotypes, gramophones and bell-pulls, and his diction matches the furniture-- his characters say things like "Mercy!" and "Drat!." Gorey's nonsense verse is the direct descendant of Edward Lear's and Lewis Carroll's, and, as it would be impossible to transplant Lear or Carroll to another era, Gorey inherits their Victorian world along with their spirit...
...harder to get a liver or heart transplant in Maryland than it is in Kansas? Maybe not, but you?d probably get that impression from a new Health and Human Services report. The study charts the rates of death while waiting for a transplant, the chances of getting a new organ and the percentage of successful procedures associated with heart and liver transplants in 100 medical centers across the country. The numbers, picked up ahead of time by the Associated Press, are being released Thursday but are causing an early stir in the medical establishment. According to the report, there...
...more valuable to everyone." At that point, discrepancies will be explained, or at least fleshed out. Already, experts are offering possible reasons for the variations in success rates, including the hospitals? policies on organ distribution, the willingness of a community to donate and, of course, the health of the transplant patient. "These numbers may be helpful to patients and their families," says Speildenner. "But they should be only one of many factors examined when they decide where to go for an organ transplant...
...experience its misery. But while the disease can strike at any time, the risk increases sharply after age 50. Why? Probably because older people have fewer antibodies against varicella-zoster circulating in their bloodstream. Also at high risk are those whose immune systems are compromised, such as AIDS and transplant patients...