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Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III underwent a kidney transplant yesterday. His wife, Valerie Epps, was the donor...
...seems to us that there is no administrative oversight concerning how donor's money is spent," Dickerson wrote. "This problem would obviously become more acute if PBHA were to gain autonomy from the University...
...TIME. A person who gives $250,000 or solicits others to give that much is designated a gala co-chairman, gets lunch with Senate majority leader Bob Dole as well as Speaker Gingrich, priority seating at the gala, and four priority tickets to the convention. For $150,000, a donor becomes a vice chairman but gets only two convention tickets. The $45,000 donor is a deputy chairman, eats breakfast with Gingrich, but gets no tickets and no lunch. A $15,000 dinner-committee member is not even promised a special seat at the gala, though, like the others...
...television and newspapers is dropping. Most Americans believe that spending on foreign aid constitutes 15% to 25% of the federal budget--they would consider 5% acceptable--when aid actually amounts to less than 1% of the budget (compared with 18% for defense). The U.S. already ranks last among donor nations in the percentage of its gnp it devotes to foreign assistance, and Congress plans to cut U.S. aid another...
...team of Australian scientists has finally solved the mystery. The virus that the donor contracted and then passed on, the team reported last week in Science, contains flaws in its genetic script that appear to have rendered it innocuous. "Not only have the recipients and the donor not progressed to disease for 15 years," marvels molecular biologist Nicholas Deacon of Australia's Macfarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research, "but the prediction is that they never will." Deacon speculates that this "wimpy" HIV may even be a natural inoculant that protects its carriers against more virulent strains of the virus, much...