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For now, surgeons and their patients must still walk the tightrope between the natural potency of the immune system and the perils of suppressing it. The balancing act is especially tricky in the most difficult of operations: multiple abdominal transplants. Doctors in the U.S. have tried such surgery only four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How A Miracle Drug Disarms The Body's Defenses | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

Hitech's opponent in the opening round is an auditor from Milwaukee named Greg Wichman. A large rumpled man with a pocketful of pens, Wichman, whose own rating hovers just under 2000, does not look at all pleased about competing against Hitech. Playing White, he makes a traditional first move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Chicago: Playing Hitech Computer Chess | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

For Mamet fans, Speed-the-Plow will recall many of the pleasures of Glengarry. Both center on salesmen who have no skill except persuasion, no talent but for heightened, theatrical speech and naked yet manipulative emotional outbursts. Although Mamet is highly literary -- he reads widely, and the script for Speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Madonna Comes to Broadway | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

In Cambridge, however, Ruggles' struggle for solvency has not been an easy one. Starsield called Harvard Square a tricky market. "If you hit the nail on the head, so to speak, you can do very well," he said. "There are a lot of people and a lot of potential business...

Author: By Shawna H. Yen, | Title: Pushing English Pizza in the Square | 4/26/1988 | See Source »

Indeed, the tricky peers try to scuttle Strephon's bid for Phyllis' hand by catching him cuddling his mother Iolanthe (Marybeth Ahern) who, being a fairy, still seems to be a 17-year-old girl. He certainly looked guilty of cavorting with another woman, (or worse, committing a statutory offense...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Frolicking With Fairies | 4/14/1988 | See Source »

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