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Article: No. 003: once upon a time (last month), in a distant land (Pittsburgh), there was a doctor, a pig, and a magical pixie dust that could regrow fingers happily, this was no fairy tale.(MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR)
- Article from:
- Esquire
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
- Author:
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The Cincinnati branch of HobbyTown USA is located in an old strip mall on the outskirts of the city, in between a Payless shoe store and an H&R Block. One recent Sunday morning, the assistant manager, Lee Spievack, stood behind the cash register licking his fingers, having just devoured a Krispy Kreme chocolate doughnut. Spievack is sixty-nine, and the accumulation of years has made him less imposing than he was thirty-five years ago, when he won a Silver Star during the Vietnam war. He was wearing his HobbyTown USA uniform: a crisp yellow button-down shirt with his name stitched in red letters that was tucked tightly into khaki pants pulled well higher than his waist. ...
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Article: Science Finding Ways to Regrow Fingers
AP Online;
February 19, 2007 ;
700+ words
... ... the situation of Lee Spievack, a hobby-store ... says Dr. Stephen Badylak, a regeneration ... The summer before Lee Spievack's accident ... the dark," says Badylak, who's participating ... happened inside Lee Spievack's finger. The ...
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