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By FROM SUN STAFF AND NEWS SERVICES | February 3, 2009
Event is second to one for greatest viewership super bowl The Arizona-Pittsburgh matchup riveted an estimated audience of 95.4 million people, second only to last year's game as the most-watched Super Bowl. Viewership peaked in the fourth quarter, when the Cardinals took the lead on Larry Fitzgerald's 64-yard catch and sprint to the end zone only to have it snatched back when Santonio Holmes' end zone leap gave the Steelers the 27-23 win Sunday night. More than 100 million Americans watched between 9:30 p.m. and 10 p.m., according to Nielsen Media Research.
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By From Sun news services | December 11, 2008
Sabathia, Yankees agree to 7-year, $161M deal baseball CC Sabathia and the New York Yankees agreed yesterday on the framework for a seven-year, $161 million contract, the richest for a pitcher in baseball history. Sabathia has the right to opt out after three seasons and become a free agent again. He also gets a full no-trade clause. Sabathia will give the Yankees a new marquee star as they head into the new $1.3 billion Yankee Stadium. "It's all subject on the physical," Yankees co-chairman Hank Steinbrenner said.
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November 20, 2008
DR. ADRIAN KANTROWITZ, 90 Heart transplant pioneer Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, a cardiac surgeon who performed the nation's first human heart transplant and who also developed lifesaving medical implants, died Friday in Ann Arbor, Mich., of complications from heart failure. In 1967, Dr. Kantrowitz performed the first human heart transplant in the United States, three days after the world's first was performed in South Africa. But the transplant, on an infant who died several hours later, was only a small part of his life's work to solve the problem of heart failure, said his wife, Jean Kantrowitz.
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By Jacques Kelly | August 17, 2008
Joan Leslie Tieperman, a 20-year heart transplant survivor and former elementary school teacher, died Aug. 10 at her home in Woodstock in Howard County. She was 66. Family members said she died of complications related to her heart transplant. Joan Leslie Abbott was born in Baltimore and raised in Pimlico. She attended St. Ambrose Parochial School and was a 1960 Seton High School graduate. She earned an associate's degree from the old Baltimore Junior College, where she met her future husband, Joseph F. Tieperman Jr., a Rouse Co. financial officer who helped create Columbia in the 1960s.
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By Julie Bykowicz | June 10, 2007
If ever there were picnickers who could truly appreciate yesterday's warm, late-spring breezes, sunny blue skies and quiet Howard County scenery, it was the group who gathered in Patapsco State Park. "Didn't God bless us with a wonderful day today?" Carolyn Kramer asked the 50 people gathered around her. For 22 years, every day has been wonderful for Kramer, because she's alive - thanks to an anonymous donor's heart. This was the Annual Heart Transplant Picnic, attended by about two dozen heart recipients - "transplants," as they call themselves - and their relatives.
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By Frank D. Roylance | October 17, 2006
If your heart is failing, your chances of getting a new one might hang on whether your local transplant center concludes that you're too old, too fat or too sick to qualify for a precious donor heart. If you're turned down, you can shop around and might get a more sympathetic hearing at a hospital in another city, or even across town. Critics say the criteria that hospitals in Baltimore, across the country and around the world use to select patients for life-saving transplants are inconsistent and sometimes arbitrary - with too little foundation in current science.
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By Denise Gellene | September 6, 2006
Federal regulators approved yesterday the first fully implantable artificial heart, which is to be used by dying heart failure patients who are not eligible for transplants. The device, called AbioCor, was tested in 14 patients who lived an average of five months after receiving the mechanical heart. The Food and Drug Administration said it approved the artificial heart for humanitarian use, which means the device was not tested in large clinical trials but might benefit 4,000 or fewer people a year.
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By FREDERICK N. RASMUSSEN | May 24, 2006
William Michael Bailey, a longtime heart transplant survivor whose career teaching economics at Washington College spanned more than three decades, died of cancer Saturday at Chester River Hospital Center. The Chestertown resident was 68. Born in Hobbs, N.M., and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, he earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1959 from North Texas State University in Denton. He earned a master's in economics from the University of Maryland, College Park and earned his doctorate there in 1973.
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February 13, 2006
Author of `Jaws,' Peter Benchley dies at 65 Peter Benchley, 65, whose novel Jaws terrified millions of swimmers even as the author became an advocate for the conservation of sharks, died Saturday at his home in Princeton, N.J. The cause of death was idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive and fatal scarring of the lungs, said his wife, Wendy Benchley. Thanks to Mr. Benchley's 1974 novel, and Steven Spielberg's blockbuster movie of the same name, the simple act of ocean swimming became synonymous with fatal horror, of still water followed by ominous, pumping music, then teeth and blood and panic.
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By Julie Bell | August 20, 2005
Shawn Henson was fading fast. Four days after his first wedding anniversary, a failing heart had turned his once-confident walk to a shuffle. His legs swelled. Within weeks, he was all but confined to bed. Henson, 40, needed a heart transplant. But as an interim step, the slightly built Baltimore warehouse supervisor chose to become the first person in the United States to receive a new-generation heart pump that physicians hope could eventually be a transplant alternative. "I'm almost back to my old self," Henson said yesterday at a news conference with his wife, Alaphia, little more than a month after his operation at the University of Maryland Medical Center.