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...trying for years to change that pattern, trying to find ways to encourage donation, debating the ethical quandaries inherent in such a delicate, and personal, choice. Monday, a committee appointed by the department of Health and Human Services began compiling a list of possible solutions to the organ availability dilemma. Each of the suggestions has circulated in ethicists? circles for years; the most controversial of the proposals would provide a small monetary compensation to the survivors of organ donors. The consensus could be there, at least in the medical community: In a statement made a few weeks ago, the American...
...REFUGEE DILEMMA...
...Times of India connects the difficulty in reaching agreement at Bonn with the evolving war on the ground, pointing out that anti-Taliban Pashtun warlords have warned the Northern Alliance to stay out of southern Afghanistan. That poses a strategic dilemma for Washington, since the anti-Taliban Pashtun forces don't appear to have the military muscle to drive the Taliban out of Kandahar and its remaining strongholds, and the U.S. has no desire to use its own ground forces in a pitched battle in Afghanistan...
...geographic dispersion,” says Frieden. “Less than one-third of the faculty have offices in the same building. I rarely see the colleagues that are not in my building.” Blackbourn is sympathetic to the government department’s space dilemma. While the history department’s headquarters in Robinson Hall, professors have office space in Coolidge and CES as well. Blackbourn calls the history department a “friendly place to work,” but acknowledges that the geographic reality limits the ability of the department...
...Malaysia, too, is worried about the possibility of a sudden spike in the number of dispossessed, but most of that concern has been expressed in private. "It is a dilemma for us," says a senior government official. "If the fighting in Afghanistan goes on, many more refugees are bound to try to come. But we can't be seen to be deporting hundreds of desperate Muslims." And there's the rub for Malaysia, where the relaxed visa requirements for travelers from Muslim countries?combined with what some critics describe as often less-than-vigilant immigration procedures?have made...