Word: donor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still buzzing about a conference call last Tuesday between Dole and the "Team 100" cadre of top G.O.P. fund raisers. When one asked where he stood on Ross Perot issues--balancing the budget, term limits, campaign-finance reform--Dole plunged into legislative proposals and subclauses. No good, said the donor. What was he for? A long and pained silence followed. "It was horrible," says a participant. "Just horrible...
CONNIE SESSOMS, 41; CHARLOTTE, N.C.; Trucking Business A regular blood donor since 1972, Sessoms was the first to participate in a local pilot program for children with sickle-cell anemia, where he was paired with a specific patient with similar characteristics. There is a medical reason for the one-to-one matchup: transfusions from the same donor may help children build antibodies, lengthening the time between crises. Says Sessoms: "I would do whatever it takes to make another's life a little easier...
...occasions (as well as ordinary ones) and also, quite possibly most important of all, a place for quiet contemplation, for receiving the inspiring messages from the past emanating from the surroundings (including, perhaps, paintings and tapestries) and for simply congregating with other students and teachers, as the hall's donor, Major Henry Lee Higginson, intended...
...Sydney, Australia, meanwhile, researchers have been closely following the medical histories of seven people who became infected as a result of transfusions with HIV-tainted blood 15 years ago. None of them have become ill with AIDS; neither, it turns out, has the donor. Scientists have speculated that the virus that infected them is missing snippets of key genetic material that hampers its ability to reproduce - while at the same time protecting the carriers from infection by more robust HIV strains...
...dean said that he is feeling well, and added that his wife Valerie, the kidney donor, is also recovering nicely. Valerie Epps is a professor at Suffolk University Law School...