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...will be left to the court to map the journey of a blood donor turned life taker. Only last August, a man named Michael McDermott who used the handle "Mucko" was preaching peace in an Internet discussion about explosives. He reprimanded someone looking to buy land mines: "It would seem that some 'Christians' have forgotten the Sixth Commandment. It is hard to imagine Jesus resorting to land mines." The commandment is Thou Shalt Not Kill...
...Nerve Transplant In a surgical first, Houston doctors transplanted nerves from a living donor to her infant son. To repair torn nerves in eight-month-old Rodrigo Cervantes Corona's left shoulder and arm, doctors took 3 ft. of neural tissue from his mother's legs and tracked it from the right side of his body to his left hand. The transplanted nerves act as a conduit to allow the baby's undamaged right-hand nerves to grow over to his left side. The mother will feel a bit of numbness on each side of her feet for the rest...
...first suggestion is that we propose to the administration the idea of a council endowment and try to get them on board. Its seems that if we put a little effort into it, we could find a donor who would be willing to endow the council. We could even offer naming rights. Who cares if it is called the Al Gore '69 Undergraduate Council as long as we can watch "The Sopranos"? But, let's say the administration does not want to help us out (certainly not unheard of). That's okay--we're Harvard students, we're resourceful...
Despite concern that giving would lag after the campaign, the UDO is on track to raise money for a number of new University-wide initiatives and specific growth within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). The office stayed its course through clearly defined goals and targeted donor appeals...
...more ambitious solution would be to convince donors to give to a central donation fund controlled by the administration, instead of allowing each donor to pick his or her pet project and leave the rest of the University to fend for itself. Then, funds could be directed to the departments or facilities that most urgently need them, not the ones that naturally attract the greatest attention from financial heavyweights...