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...Pittsburgh, Thomas Gaidosh, 47, a burly, 6-ft. 3-in. factory worker and father of two, languished in his hospital bed last month, struggling for his life. For weeks, doctors at Presbyterian-University Hospital had been searching for a donor heart to replace his debilitated one. Time was running out. Across the state, in the chocolate capital of Hershey, Anthony Mandia, 44, was losing a similar battle. Mandia, a Philadelphia recreation-center director, had a history of coronaries, and now his heart was deteriorating rapidly, but no donor could be found. On the West Coast, Richard Dallara, 33, an auto...
Last week they appeared to have safely crossed that bridge. Within hours of one another, the three men underwent surgery to replace their temporary mechanical devices with donor hearts. At week's end all seemed to be making progress, and none showed signs of rejection...
Harvard proceeded cautiously with the sale, unwilling to offend the family and friends or to violate the trust of a prominent donor. It secured a deal with a wealthy and respected philanthropist in New York, William T. Golden, who promised to use the forest for research and preserve Stillman's intentions...
...since the summer, Mann said, "We think we are getting closer to a compromise position. The donor had clearly wanted there to be a stream of income for the forest, and we had to weigh that against Harvard taking the endowment. There is a cut-off point, but I don't know what it is. That's why we're trying to compromise. The parties disagree, but we are making some progress...
Carnegie-Mellon was given its share of investment money by "an anonymous donor who has worked with the university in the past," said Hale...