Word: organism
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Ferris also said that he enjoyed working with students but plans to pursue his teaching career outside of Harvard, after his retirement. He will continue to give private organ lessons and teach at Boston University...
Ferris directs the church's four-part mixed choir, which he created upon his arrival in 1958, and plays the organ at church services. He also edited the University's third hymn book and designed the Isham Organ, heralded upon its installation as the largest American-built tracker action organ in the United States...
...euthanasia can sound brutally calculating. But as health-care costs rise annually at double and triple the rate of inflation, and as new technologies promise ever higher bills for ever older patients, the questions grow about how to ration medical care. In 1987 the Oregon legislature voted to deny organ transplants under its Medicaid program and to use that money instead for prenatal care. It is only a matter of time before the issue of continuing care for patients in a vegetative state comes under similar scrutiny...
...Harvard Gazette, official party organ of the University, has published excerpts from a study on undergraduate life supervised by Professor of Education Richard J. Light and initiated by President Bok himself. The study covers a lot of ground and reaches some eye-opening conclusions...
...risks to themselves against the benefits to others, parents are legally entrusted with such decisions. But the parents can hardly be objective in balancing one child's needs against another's. The operation that Marissa may undergo, perhaps when she is six months old, is far simpler than organ transplants. After anesthetizing the infant, doctors will insert a needle into her hipbone and take out a small amount of marrow. The pain will be slight, the risks minimal, and the marrow will regenerate...