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...applaud the efforts of the members of the Harvard community who are trying to save Kuo's life. According to Harrison W. Lin '99, co-president of the Chinese Students Association, an estimated 580 people registered with the National Marrow Donor Program during the two-day event, approximately 85 percent of whom were Asian-American...
Turner suggested that somebody create an alternate list of the nation's top givers, so that the blindly status-driven could at least fight to be the top donor...
...nation be so willing to accept a similar regulation against African American straight men and women? Furthermore, a closer look at the American Red Cross questionnaire shows us that there are no questions asking about unprotected sexual encounters. This question, it would seem, is much more relevant to donor screening than questions about same-sex sexual encounters. They are more relevant because the question about same-sex encounters lump all homosexual contact in a high risk category. It ignores the fact that mutual masturbation between two men is of a much lower risk category than unprotected heterosexual intercourse...
...peers concede that perhaps the regulation is ridiculous. Some still feel that the screening process is not foolproof. The reality is that there is an eight week window period between transmission and detection and that the screening process is just as likely to miss a straight donor who is infected as it is to miss a gay donor who has contracted...
...residential areas of the Executive mansion qualify as space used for official government duties under the law in question. Most Democrats say no. Most Republicans say yes. A final dispute: whether a phoned request for money "occurs" where the President placed the call or where the would-be donor received it. Presuming that's at some nongovernment site, like the donor's home, Clinton would be in the clear...