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Other donations to the University, not included in the "annual" giving, are ordinarily restricted gifts to endow chairs, build buildings, or otherwise assure the donor with a permanent monument at Harvard. The University did not release figures on those donations...
...create doubles. As soon as an acronym becomes common, it breeds a litter of identical children. When a man says that he works for AID, is he part of the Agency for International Development or Americans of Italian Descent? Perhaps he is a doctor concerned with Artificial Insemination by Donor, or a lexicographer employed by the Acronyms and Initialisms Dictionary, which now lists 18 different AIDs...
...would have had to negotiate with the patient's next of kin to obtain organs for transplant, and the organs might have deteriorated and become unusable before permission was obtained. There was no such delay at the Utah hospital. Informed by the patient's wife about the donor card, surgeons were able to operate on him as soon as he was pronounced legally dead.* They removed both kidneys for transplant and both eyes for cornea grafts. Within a few hours, one of each was used for transplants in other patients...
...made possible by Utah's passage of the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, which gives any patient the right to bequeath his body or organs for medical purposes. Because of almost nationwide adoption of the act-and changing public attitudes toward transplants-surgeons long frustrated by a shortage of donor organs now foresee an increase in the supply...
...less than two years. The legislatures of the two remaining states, Nebraska and Massachusetts, will take up the measure in their next sessions. Blair L. Sadler, an attorney with the National Institutes of Health and a principal promoter of the gift acts, reports many requests for donor cards, with wording similar to that used in Utah. He predicts many more organs will soon become available for transplants...