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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Getty claims that animal-rights activists made harassing phone calls to his hospital bedside while he was recovering. The transplant doesn't seem to have taken yet, but when Getty regained his strength, he launched a counteroffensive. Last month, with a group of nine other AIDS patients, Getty sat down in the middle of a driveway and blocked traffic outside an animal-rights rally in Washington. Whatever PETA says, he proclaims, "is all lies and nonsense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT'S IT WORTH TO FIND A CURE? | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

...what Buckhead most vividly dramatizes, perhaps, is the split down the center of the city between Atlanta and Georgia. For if to the rest of the state the capital seems an anomalous Northern transplant (more than half its residents, after all, come from somewhere else), to the boomtown developers in the glass-walled towers the rest of the state seems dangerously slow and Southern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A HOST OF CONTRADICTIONS | 6/28/1996 | See Source »

...patient told us how he was rescued from death by a kidney transplant at the age of ten, gradually lost his vision, and has lived with chronic pain. Senator Kennedy asked whether he had brothers and sisters. The patient replied, quite matter-of-factly, that two older brothers had died from the disease when he was very young, because kidney transplants were not yet available. So he felt fortunate to have been born recently enough to benefit from a life-saving transplant. The patient was also glad that affected children born yet more recently could avoid the kidney disease altogether...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Commencement 1996 | 6/22/1996 | See Source »

What is most extraordinary about the ordeal, Epps points out, is that his wife donated one of her kidneys for the transplant. Had a donor not been found, Epps says, he would have been able to live for only four years on dialysis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SINCE 71 Everything's Archie WITH EPPS AT THE HELM | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

RECOVERING. PAUL TSONGAS, 55, former Massachusetts Senator and 1992 presidential candidate; from a bone-marrow transplant, his second, to treat cancer-therapy complications; in Boston. The donor was his twin sister Thaleia Schlesinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 3, 1996 | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

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