Word: donor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sound like a somewhat heavy-handed lampoon of the American health- care system -- bad Joseph Heller, say. It gets worse. If Murphy is furloughed for the prolonged pre-transplant regimen, afterward he would return to prison. Would he be furloughed promptly again if a heart became available unexpectedly, as donor hearts are wont to do? The Bureau of Prisons says he would be. Murphy has his doubts. Doctors see a logistical snarl that could hopelessly compromise the success of the transplant. The authorities shrug. "The Bureau of Prisons doesn't have a hang-up," explains Robert McFadden, executive assistant...
Last Monday, Mark not his real name walked down Mass. Ave a couple of blocks toward Central Square and entered a nondescript office in non-descript building. A smiling receptionist offered him a candy heart and some forms, labeled "Donor Application...
...back to Harvard, Mark told me that the experience was "king of fun," and he hoped to be accepted as a regular sperm donor...
Begun in the 30s and 40s, the program did not become focused on contemporary art until 1972, when it obtained a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a private donor began a purchase fund. Today, the program supports itself by reinvesting profits earned from rental in insurance and new purchases. The works, which include pieces by many big-name artists, such as Warhol, Rauschenberg and Miro, as well as newer, more up-and-coming artists, are purchased by the Museum from the artists themselves, or from galleries or publishers...
Hillel held a similar drive for Feinberg last year. Although they did not find a match for Feinberg, the drive identified one person who served as a marrow donor...