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...many people, the concept of a legalized market for human organs is repugnant. "Payments eventually result in the exploitation of the individual," Francis Delmonico, a Harvard University professor, told the Wall Street Journal in 2007. "It's the poor person who sells." But Matas disagrees, noting that compensating kidney donors is no different from sanctioning sales of other body parts. "People get paid to be surrogate mothers. People get paid for sperm and hair," he says. "People say, 'Oh, those are safe and replenishable, but egg donation and surrogacy are risky, and yet they're legal.'" A legal market...
...While It's Hot. New York Restaurant Week continues. Catch a $24.07 lunch at Danny Meyer's Eleven Madison Park (11 Madison Avenue; 212-889-0905) or a $35 dinner at the 170-year-old financial district institution Delmonico's Steak House (56 Beaver Street; 212-509-1144) while you can. It's back to business as usual...
...have a legendary reputation for impeccable news coverage during the Ed Murrow period [PRESS, Nov. 4], but its firing practices are another story, then as now. In 1937 I was taken to lunch at Delmonico's by Sterling Fisher, then head of CBS's public affairs department. He said he wanted me there because he had a nasty job to perform. He had to fire CBS Newsman H.V. Kaltenborn, who was causing too much trouble with his anti-Hitler broadcasts. In the middle of lunch, Fisher told "H.V." he was through. At this point, before dessert...
...with a colored dot to indicate which crew member it is intended for. The color code for Brown, the commander, is red; for Glenn, a payload specialist, it's purple. "The shrimp cocktail they fix is very, very good," says Glenn, "as good as what you'd get at Delmonico's. Curt likes shrimp, and I always tell him that when he's on the flight deck and I'm hungry, I'm going to go looking...
...were looking for something along the lines of Delmonico's" and the 21 Club, celebrated New york eateries, he said...