Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pennsylvania has just announced that it will pay a $300 stipend to help families of organ donors cover funeral expenses to mitigate the organ shortage. Payments for organ donations are currently banned by a Federal law that classifies human organs as a national resource, presumably along the lines of the great Redwood forests. But Social Analysis 10 offers a different opinion in its Fall semester sourcebook, which will bring comfort to anyone with a newly deceased family member or friend...
...medical histories of their loved ones to make the organs appear more attractive? "Aunt Ginny hasn't touched the bottle in years!" Long term effects could be even more serious. While officials swear that there will be absolutely no bidding, this could be the first step towards a booming human organ market? Maybe celebrity organs would become a new hot commodity--if Elvis' sequined jackets would bring in thousands, what about his pancreas...
...panel was sponsored by Cultural Survival, a group dedicated to defending the human rights and cultural autonomy of indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities...
...basic education in human values is not there, so human rights cannot flourish," Shankar said...
...Leroy told me I could read hundreds of books and write a dozen, but to be a true scholar I'd have to be a human being and that, he emphasized, is the hard part," Akyeampong said...