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US: Surgeons transplant pig's kidney in brain-dead man, working normally for over a month
World | Aug 16, 2023, 10:29 PM ISTThe pigs are being genetically-modified so their organs match with human bodies, as the human immune system immediately attacks foreign tissues.
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Taylor Swift receives honorary doctorate from NYU; asks fans to embrace 'cringe'
Celebrities | May 19, 2022, 11:37 AM ISTApart from making jokes about her acquiring a doctorate from New York University, Taylor Swift also shared her life wisdom with the graduates.
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US duo William Nordhaus and Paul Romer awarded Nobel Economics Prize
Business | Oct 08, 2018, 05:42 PM ISTUnlike the other Nobel prizes, the economics prize was created by the Swedish central bank, the Riksbank,in 1968 to mark its tricentenary. It was first awarded in 1969.
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Indian-American to lead NYU's prison education initiative
World | Mar 19, 2015, 12:25 PM ISTWashington: Nikhil Pal Singh, an Indian American professor, is leading a unique New York University initiative to bring college education to the inmates of a medium-security prison in New York state.Backed by a $500,000 grant
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Salman Rushdie to join NYU journalism faculty
World | Mar 11, 2015, 11:19 AM ISTWashington:Indian author Salman Rushdie, who won the Booker Prize for his 1981 novel "Midnight's Children", will teach and advise journalism students at New York University as Distinguished Writer in Residence.Rushdie will serve on the faculty
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Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng leaves for US
World | May 19, 2012, 06:42 PM ISTBeijing, May 19: A blind Chinese activist was hurriedly taken from a hospital Saturday and boarded a plane that took off for the United States, closing a nearly month-long diplomatic tussle that had tested US-China