Word: donor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Footing more than half of the bill for the Center are three major donors: principal donor Robert A. Belfer, president of the Belco Petroleum Corporation, Washington attorney Frank A. Weil '53; and the Kresge Foundation...
According to Liem, the donor "had been listening to my lectures and said I should have peace of mind to teach...
Widener, in particular, is in the midst of significant renovation designed to create a more conducive environment for book preservation. In 1982, an anonymous donor gave the Harvard Campaign $2 million to install a new copper roof on Widener. Workers will begin replacing many Widener windows--but not all, because of fiscal constraints--with double-glazed units in preparation for installing air conditioning and humilty control. And the building's electrical wiring--geared to a 1915 burden of just larger not electric typewriters or computer terminals--also needs substantial work...
...ambiguities more dramatically than that of the late Mario and Elsa Rios, a Los Angeles couple whose orphaned embryos now lie in a freezer in Melbourne, Australia. Doctors there had removed several of Mrs. Rios' eggs in 1981, then fertilized them with sperm from an anonymous donor. Some were implanted in Mrs. Rios, and the remaining two were frozen. "You must keep them for me," she said. The implant failed, and the couple later died in a plane crash in Chile. Australian laws grant no "rights" to the two frozen embryos, but though local officials are believed to have...
Beyond the argument about experimentation lies an even more touchy controversy: eugenics, the idea that the species can be improved through selective breeding. Now that it is possible to create human embryos by a process of selection among donor eggs and sperm, is it desirable to leave that selection entirely to chance? In one sense, doctors are already applying eugenics when they screen donors for genetic defects, a standard practice that many feel should become a lot more standard. In another sense, they are engaging in eugenics when they select medical students as sperm donors, a procedure that one survey...