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Trouble is, the kidneys of the dead are just about as hard to obtain as those of the living. Sustained by artificial-kidney machines, 50 to 100 victims of kidney disease are waiting in line for potential donors in New York City alone. Thousands more in other cities are biding their time for the same reason. Often the obstacle to donation is not the delicate task of asking the dying patient to donate his kidneys. In appealing for greater posthumous largesse, Mount Sinai's Dr. Lewis Burrows also addressed families of the dying-because, under laws in many states...
Patients will have one central telephone number they can call for any of these services, knowing that any help they obtain will not cost anything. "This is bound to encourage people to ask for medical aid more often," Pollack said...
...thirds of those exclude them in practice. "It is virtually impossible to get a furnished flat for a Pakistani or West Indian," one real estate agent admitted. Real estate agents themselves often give fewer addresses to colored customers. Also it is much more difficult for an immigrant to obtain a mortgage, and rates are almost invariably higher. The last alternative, public housing projects (council houses) take a much larger percentage of whites than they do nonwhites holding similar jobs. And the NCCI claims to have evidence that where immigrants have been evidence that where immigrants have been housed, they...
...goal of 500 signatures will not be difficult to obtain and preliminary reports on the informal talks seemed very hopeful," Hollomon said. He added that "every student in the college will be contacted...
...primary objective of the subcommittees is to obtain the graduate students' opinions on the courses and examination programs in their departments, Parker said. Proposals for changes can then be compiled and discussed with the department chairmen...