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...that tough to raise the money,” Cox says. “Steve is really wonderful about listening to students,” Clancy says. “He works so many more hours than he gets paid for. He’s the one adult that I’ve met at Harvard who is like that. I think everyone else should be like that...
...lawyer and an adorable little girl (Dakota Fanning) as Penn’s daughter. If that weren’t enough, Nelson fills the soundtrack with catchy Beatles tunes. (You may recently have heard Aimee Mann and Michael Penn’s Two of Us on the adult contemporary airwaves.) All of this adds up to a pop movie—an entertaining treatment of a formulaic story...
...fruit of their loins to be bright. Not geniuses mind, because they're a pain the tail to bring up - high-maintenance, moody, have-to-be-entertained-all-the-time. Ghastly. Nobody could dispute the greatness of Albert Einstein, but if he refused to wear socks even as an adult, can you imagine trying to get him dressed in time for school...
...soul searching in the transplant community. Was it a tragic fluke or a sign that transplant surgery has reached some kind of ethical limit? The Mount Sinai Medical Center, the New York City hospital where the complex double operation was performed, has put on hold its adult living-donor liver-transplant program, pending a review of Hurewitz's death. Mount Sinai has performed about 100 such operations in the past three years...
...living-donor transplant works particularly well when an adult donates a modest portion of the liver to a child. Usually only the left lobe of the organ is required, leading to a mortality rate for living donors in the neighborhood of 1 in 500 to 1 in 1,000. But when the recipient is another adult, as much as 60% of the donor's liver has to be removed. "There really is very little margin for error," says Dr. Fung. By way of analogy, he suggests, think of a tree. "An adult-to-child living-donor transplant is like cutting...