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...living-donor transplant works particularly well when an adult donates a modest portion of the liver to a child. Usually only the left lobe of the organ is required, leading to a mortality rate for living donors in the neighborhood of 1 in 500 to 1 in 1,000. But when the recipient is another adult, as much as 60% of the donor's liver has to be removed. "There really is very little margin for error," says Dr. Fung. By way of analogy, he suggests, think of a tree. "An adult-to-child living-donor transplant is like cutting...
...Here's a modest proposal. As Kennedy notes, the main reason blacks use the N word among themselves is to take away its power to hurt and demean when white people hurl it at them. But when whites try to use it in the ways blacks do, it falls flat because it lacks authenticity. So, instead of copycatting black slang, it would make more sense for white would-be hipsters to demonstrate a little originality by calling themselves slurs that blacks have used to demean white people, such as cracker, honky or ofay. They could even give the epithets...
...Greenspan credited the piper's relatively modest demands this year to an economy fundamentally changed in the middle of the last decade to one with "an improved degree of resiliency, flexibility and adaptability" driven by information technology and unbound by globalization and deregulation. "To be sure, a great deal of real economic pain has been felt over the past year and a half," he said. But for the economy to have weathered the NASDAQ crash of 2000 and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 "as well as it has is truly impressive...
...future still looks bright. Globalization and competition continue to keep prices (and profit margins) low, and while that means layoffs now, as soon as demand picks up and companies stabilize their cash flow, they will be driven to make another (if more modest) round of those productivity-enhancing investments in high technology that made the '90s so wonderful. And new, better technology "will present ample opportunities...
...Culture, with the announcement that “in all modesty, this project constitutes a watershed moment in musical history.” A lesser man, having produced such a watershed work, might have been tempted to caper and preen, to indulge in self-congratulation. But Cornel West, modest genius that he is, does everything with “ego-deflating humility...