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Surgeons at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California only last October transplanted a heart into Newborn Paul Holc. What made the transplant different was that the donor, a Canadian infant known as Baby Gabriel, was born anencephalic, that is, without most of her brain. Like virtually all anencephalics, she could not have survived more than a few days outside the womb; unlike most, Gabriel died before her healthy organs deteriorated. Then, early in January, surgeons in Mexico City announced that for the first time, they had successfully grafted tissue from a miscarried fetus into the brains of two Parkinson...
Ethical complexities are increasing at the start of life as well. Last week Paul Holc, the youngest heart-transplant patient ever, was alive because of how a death-and-life problem was resolved in one case. Nine weeks ago, Canadians Karen, 27, and Fred, 36, learned that their unborn child lacked most of her brain. Called anencephaly, the always fatal malformation occurs in six of 10,000 births. Determined that some good should come from their tragedy, the couple decided to donate their baby's organs...
...White House has ever moved faster" than Johnson. In the hectic beginning days of the New Deal, F.D.R. announced the Good Neighbor Policy, called the bank holiday, passed the Federal Emergency Relief Act, took the U.S. off the gold standard, and started the CCC, AAA, TVA, HOLC, FDIC, FCA, NRA and WPA. And all that in 100 days, not five months. Johnson is a whirlwind, but Roosevelt was a cyclone...
...Home Owners' Loan Corporation went out of business last week. Started in 1933, when mortgages on U.S. homes were being foreclosed at the rate of 1,000 a day, HOLC refinanced 1,017,821 mortgages, managed to save 80% of the homes for the original owners. The corporation has not made a loan since 1936, has spent 15 years tending its mortgages, made money in the process. Last week, HOLC made a farewell gift to the U.S. Treasury: its $13,800,000 cash surplus...
...Associated Press and editor (1903-10) of the Boston Traveler, New Hampshire-born John Fahey was a co-founder of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, between 1933 and 1936 lent $3,093,451,321 to 1,017,821 householders (one-fifth of the period's mortgage loans), ended HOLC up in the black...