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...fickle dame. Nick Matzorkis, who helped discover the bodies of the Heaven's Gate cult members and finagled that into a TV development deal with ABC, now has to cope with her nastier side. Matzorkis was jailed last week for an alleged probation violation for auto theft in Cleveland. Ohio authorities recognized him on TV. His publicist told the Los Angeles Times that the TV deal would not be affected...
...Minutes piece featured an attorney pushing a novel murder defense: that the victim was killed not by his client but by the harvesting of her organs. This was followed by an interview with an ethicist concerned that protocols proposed at the Cleveland Clinic would allow organ-preserving drugs to be given to patients expected to suffer cardiac death after life support is withdrawn. The ethicist feared that these drugs could actually hasten death...
Boffo television. But there may be less controversy here than meets the CBS Eye. The murder case was 10 years old. The protocols, though never implemented by the Cleveland Clinic, are used elsewhere and are supported by Dr. Hans Sollinger, president of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. A 1996 study of 500 hospitals found that about a third of the institutions that responded used cardiac-dead donors, some presumably injected with organ-preserving drugs. Cardiac dead used to be the most dead you could be. It wasn't until the late 1960s that new laws added the standard...
...about time somebody attempted to explain why costs are rising instead of suggesting ways in which people can save for these hikes. This is a perfect example of how greedy capitalism is dismantling the American Dream. DANIEL CASTELO Cleveland, Tennessee...
...increased the number of teaching days as much as 4%, but this was more than offset by decreases in school days at the University of Pennsylvania (8.3%), Oberlin and N.Y.U. (11%) and Princeton (17.9%). How can teaching days have decreased in the decades of the information explosion? DAVID BAMBERGER Cleveland, Ohio...