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...almost no systematic attempt was being made to reach these kinds of students. It was then that Harvard approached the head of an Eastern foundation who was personally interested in helping disadvantaged students. Harvard had a plan in mind, but had to be tactful in approaching the prospective donor, Briggs recalls...
...week a team of physicians and surgeons at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center came as close to doing so as scientific caution would permit. A kidney transplanted from a cancer patient, it seems, may have a better chance of survival than one taken from a healthy donor...
...made after doctors at Memorial had all but given up hope for a patient dying of renal failure. The vaunted artificial kidney could no longer clear the poisons from his blood, and only a transplant offered any hope. But the only kidney available was far from promising. The donor had type A blood while the kidney patient had type O. Worse, the donor's kidney was infected and was about to be removed because it was draining improperly. It had already been physically damaged by obstruction resulting from cancer of the colon...
Although the fact that the unpromising transplant worked so well seems to be a result of the donor's cancer, the possibility remains that in this case the recipient had an inborn weakness of the rejection system. The doctors are now checking that possibility too. But they are fascinated by the idea that organs from cancer patients may be surprisingly suitable for transplants...
Instead, only 6½ years after fundraising began, the $12 million museum floats on the tar like a battleship on a 600-ft. by 250-ft. concrete raft. Scraps of canvas make the ship sail. A fortnight ago, the museum's chief art donor, California Entrepreneur Norton Simon, acquired Rembrandt's Titus (TIME, March 26) for a staggering $2,234,400. Eventually it will go to the new museum-the brightest star in a firmament of fine art valued at some $35 million...