Word: organizing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...them: your wallet from the back of your trousers or your manhood from the front. The rumor about vanishing male genitalia started sweeping Lagos two weeks ago, and by last week the capital was in a panic. Frightened mobs lynched or beat to death at least a dozen suspected organ robbers in crowded markets and bus stations, where being jostled by strangers is a fact of life. Nigerians were convinced that magicians could remove the male jewels at a touch, making them reappear in Lagos' witchcraft markets on sale for thousands of dollars...
...Nobel physics and chemistry prizes are to be announced today. Last week, Mexican poet and essayist Octavio Paz won the prize for literature. Two American doctors, Joseph E. Murray, a professor of surgery emeritus at Harvard Medical School, and E. Donnall Thomas, won the prize in medicine for pioneering organ and bone marrow transplants...
Over the years, Murray and his research teamconquered other obstacles in the field oftransplantation. In 1959 Murray performed asuccessful transplant between non-identical twins,and discovered that a low dose of radiationlessened the chance that the foreign organ wouldbe rejected...
...radiation technique had potentially fatalside effects, however, and it was not until 1962,when a drug called azathioprine was discovered tosuppress the immune system and allow the body toreceive a foreign organ, that Murray was able tosuccessfully transplant the kidney of an unrelatedcadaver...
After his major work with organ transplantationwas completed, Murray concentrated his attentionon his other area of interest--plastic andreconstructive surgery, especially skintransplants and facial repair of congenital birthdefects in children. By 1970, Murray was a fullprofessor at the Medical School and was also thechair of plastic and reconstructive surgery atBrigham and Women's and Children's hospitals...