Word: donors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...harmonious families, life runs relatively free of legal hazard for a child produced by A.I.D. (artificial insemination by a donor). But let a will be contested or a marriage break up, and suddenly his status becomes clouded. Is he legitimate or illegitimate? Is he entitled to support as other children are? What rights does he have to his "father's" estate...
...many years contributed quietly to the N.A.A.C.P., the Urban League and similar groups. "What makes this new move important," says Clark, "is that it takes the wealthy Negro away from the $500 and his name on the wall"-meaning the $500 life membership in the N.A.A.C.P., which gets the donor's name inscribed on a plaque at the organization's national headquarters in New York City...
...theology of indulgences in his sermons. His displeasure noticeably increased during 1517, when the Dominican John Tetzel was preaching throughout much of Germany on behalf of a papal fund-raising campaign to complete St. Peter's Basilica. In exchange for a contribution, Tetzel boasted, he would provide donors with an indulgence that would even apply beyond the grave and free souls from purgatory. "As soon as the coin in the coffer rings," went his jingle, "the soul from purgatory springs." To Luther, this was bad theology if not worse, and he promptly drew up his 95 theses.-Among other...
Cadavers Are Best. The ideal way to get around the rejection reaction is to find an organ donor with the same immunity pattern as the recipient. This happens with any certainty only in the case of identical twins. For patients not so fortunate as to have an identical twin, the conferees agreed, the best source for a donated kidney is a brother or sister, with the mother next. The one-year survival rate for kidneys from close relatives, reported Dr. Joseph E. Murray of Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, is now 70%. For the patients themselves...
...kidneys removed from cadavers, the corresponding survival figures are 55% and 65%. Astonishingly, the chances of a successful transplant from an unrelated living donor are less than half as good as those for kidneys from unrelated cadavers. Just why, no one knows; perhaps a dying man's kidney loses some of its power to trigger the rejection mechanism...