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WEDNESDAY 10:05 A.M. Tuttle is in the OR, assisting in the Jacks "living-related" transplant, when word comes that a liver has been located on the West Coast and can be in Durham by evening. It arrives in a large styrofoam box, bathed in preservative inside a plastic bag--surprisingly mundane packaging for a gift of life. It is after 11 p.m. when Tuttle removes Hunter's shriveled liver and begins the delicate work of suturing all the various vessels and ducts from the new liver into Hunter's system. At 12:30 in the morning, the moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Biggest Fight of Shotgun's Life | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...Math Problem: Bill Clinton offered Paula Jones $700,000 to settle her sexual-harassment suit. Paula recently got a nose job. If she accepts the settlement, what combination of plastic surgery and automobile can Paula afford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 12, 1998 | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...Plastic tape and duct tape festooned Sanders Theatre last night for "The Eighth, First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony," as the event was billed...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ig Nobels Awarded In Zany Ceremony | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

What about the plastic protector...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: of yore those days | 10/8/1998 | See Source »

...Slicing tomatoes at an alarming rate, the salesman counts off the numerous features of this precision cutlery. Unimpressed? Stare in wonder as he begins sawing away at a steel hammer with the "knife that never needs sharpening". Buy one receive four free steak knives, all conveniently packaged in plastic...

Author: By Richard D. Ma, | Title: Party 'Til The Cows Come Home | 10/8/1998 | See Source »

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