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In Pittsburgh, Thomas Gaidosh, 47, a burly, 6-ft. 3-in. factory worker and father of two, languished in his hospital bed last month, struggling for his life. For weeks, doctors at Presbyterian-University Hospital had been searching for a donor heart to replace his debilitated one. Time was running...
Biotechnology has always held a special terror for environmentalists. They feared that someday genetically altered organisms would be released into the atmosphere as part of some experiment and then cause widespread ecological damage. As a result, the organisms that scientists can now produce have remained in laboratories.
But the Harvard Medical School is out to challenge the critics, and this fall began a pioneering experiment that officials view as a better way to produce better doctors.
According to Cookin' president Michael W. Rabow '87, the club was originally designed as a showcase for Harvard musicians to experiment. The managers strictly enforced the Cabot House alcohol regulations, and there were few problems.
So in the second half, the psychological test got really sadistic. It was a pain-threshhold experiment, measuring my resistance by jolting me with emotional shocks until I cracked.