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...living kidney donors will save lives by increasing the supply of kidneys available for transplant—but most Americans probably value their kidneys at more than $6,000. Even more effective would be a system that allowed persons who consent to donate their organs upon death to bequeath their compensation. Currently only 35 percent of licensed drivers and ID card holders register to be organ donors. One would expect many more Americans to register if it meant that this would swell the inheritance they leave behind by several thousand dollars...
President George W. Bush will bequeath his successor one of the more vexed foreign policy environments ever to face an incoming U.S. leader. But one exception is the case of AIDS in Africa, where most analysts agree the Bush legacy will be almost wholly benign. Since 2003, the U.S. government has spent $15 billion on care and treatment for AIDS under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The program has helped 1.4 million people in 15 countries, most of them in Africa, the continent with the highest HIV/AIDS infection...
...kinetic works of Germans Mack and Uecker, only now being properly appreciated. "The Zero Group works exemplify how Peggy was evergreen," Rylands says. "She continued buying art in the 1960s, and doing so intelligently, I must say." Three years before her death in 1979, she had the prescience to bequeath her palazzo and its collection to her uncle's foundation, which eventually opened it to the public as a museum. "There's nothing like it anywhere else in the world," says Rylands, "just for sheer concentration of masterpieces...
...there's anything the psychodrama of the two Bush presidencies should have taught us, it is that what fathers bequeath their sons is complicated. When you look at the old pictures of George Romney, it is impossible to miss the physical resemblance - the chiseled jaw, the bountiful hair, the athlete's bearing. At every turn, Mitt Romney has steered his life into his father's groove, becoming a leader in the Mormon Church, a business whiz, a Republican Governor who defied his party's orthodoxy and won in a Democratic state. Each engineered the spectacular rescue of a failing enterprise...
...enjoyed watching Natalie Portman spout a foul-mouthed, gender-bending rap and seeing Justin Timberlake bequeath a lady with his genitalia, you’re already familiar with Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone. The trio have brought their demented brand of smart-but-silly comedy to the otherwise vanilla airwaves of “Saturday Night Live,” where the latter two write sketches and Samberg, a heartthrob who happens to be hilarious, has made a splash as the show’s newest star...