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...count the number of animal-to-human transplants on one hand and they have all been totally hopeless...
...count the number of animal-to-human transplants on one hand and they have all been totally hopeless," says Professor of Surgery Lawrence H. Cohn, another heart transplant pioneer. The implantation of a foreign organ from a different species into a human causes continuous, massive rejection even though the organs are functionally similar, he says. Doctors are barely able to repress rejection in human-to-human transplants, he added...
...vital signs are good, especially for a company on the brink not long ago. "I remember taking the books home one night after I became director and my husband telling me it was hopeless," says Sills. There was a multimillion-dollar deficit. The split season (eleven weeks in the fall, ten in the spring) meant redundant start-up costs of $1 million each year. Production expenses were spiraling. "There were days when I could hardly talk myself into coming to the office," she says. "There would be a big meeting on Tuesday morning, and I would be told there...
Thinking of Orwell, what the Brown students did seems hopeless and misdirected. But at the same time that these students were "unrealistic," their protest represents a valuable rage against a world which frustrates peaceful change and promises a nuclear firestorm. It is true that an influential article in Scientific American may do more to prevent an anti-ballistic missile system (which will almost certainly make the world less safe) than a cyanide referendum at Brown. But such articles have been published, and the present administration still intends to develop defensive weapons. It is still within the realm of reason that...
...Sandinista government in Nicaragua and the continuing crackdown on freedoms in Poland. Shultz was prepared even to broach the subject of human rights in the Soviet Union, according to a senior White House official, primarily to satisfy various East European constituencies that take note of such frequently hopeless exchanges. Said a U.S. diplomat: "We will have our say, and Gromyko will just have to listen." The specific U.S. objective that Shultz wanted to emphasize most strongly was Soviet agreement on further, regular meetings between the two sides at the ministerial level. These would cover a range of subjects, most important...