Irish slang for party or celebration; by extension, some substance with which you party or celebrate. I'm AWOH (Absent With Out Hooley) so I gotta boost tha Uncle's stash.
Henrietta Lacks was an African American tobacco farmer and mother of five. She died in 1951, but her cells were kept and studied by scientists without the knowledge of her family. The cells have been genetically sequenced once again without consent.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. By Rebecca Skloot. Crown, 369 pages, $26. Dr. George Gey and his wife Margaret had been trying to grow cells outside the human body for thirty years when Henrietta Lacks walked into Johns Hopkins Hospital in February 1951 with unexplained blood on her underwear.