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...other words, perfusion proved beneficial, even when the organ donor was older or had other issues that would make the tissue marginal for transplant. That's especially important, since in recent years, the quality of donated kidneys has declined, due in part to the typical donor's advanced age and increase in accumulated health problems and diseases. Given the dwindling of an already small pool of viable organs, many patients are choosing to obtain kidneys from living donors - usually close relatives, who must undergo an extremely invasive and dangerous operation to donate the organ. But machine preservation, if used more...
...College announced plans for a $1 billion renovation of the 12 undergraduate Houses in response to long-lived concerns over decaying infrastructure in many of the buildings, which span in age from 38 to 112 years old. The 15 years of planned renovations are slated to start in 2011, but a number of key questions remain unanswered, including where students in Houses undergoing construction will be relocated and how the plans will fit with the University's now bleaker financial outlook...
...Larry Leif, 58, a successful sporting goods and toy company entrepreneur in Delray Beach, Fla., his retirement is more than on hold, it's completely disconnected. Leif, who has been planning his golden years since the age of 19, lost his entire $8 million retirement account with Madoff. Now it's nothing more than a series of phony statements he thumbs through while shaking his head...
...years later, pledgers and non-pledgers don't differ at all in their sexual behavior. That includes oral and anal sex, which previous studies had speculated might be used as substitutes for vaginal intercourse. In this data, that seems not to be upheld. They don't differ in their age of sexual initiation; both groups initiated around 21 years old. That shows that this is quite a conservative group, because that's four years later than the American average. And they don't differ in number of lifetime partners. Each group had about three partners by age...
...once receptive labor ministry recently introduced a plan that essentially pays unemployed migrants to return to their country of origin. On Dec. 20, the administration extended the period during which police can detain undocumented migrants and barred legally registered immigrants from bringing over any family member of working age...