Word: organism
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...past, if a donor wanted to give his organ to a family member—but could not due to conflicting blood types or antibodies—the donor’s information would not be saved by any organ transplant agency...
...building on the work of Harvard economists, the New England Organ Bank has set up a database that facilitates kidney exchanges. For instance, if one type-A donor could not give his kidney to an ill type-B brother, and another type-B donor couldn’t give his kidney to an ill type-A sister, the two families might swap organs under the new system...
According to data from the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), there were 32 cases of this type of organ exchange in 2005, up from the first two reported cases...
...they’re just going through the motions. There’s very little on “Fab Four” that we haven’t seen before stylistically. Here we find the same loose reverb and spacey harmonies, the same collages of cheesy Farfisa-type organ sounds, the same sometimes-baffling vocal lines that sound more like language-learning dictation exercises than pop hooks. This is an eclectic recipe that has worked for Stereolab before, producing 15 years of consistent and occasionally great music. “Fab Four” comes down solidly...
...says, with a memory for Biblical passages, sermons, and wisecracks.As a student at Bates, though, he did not envision himself as a minister. In fact, the Massachusetts native son fancied himself the future director of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. He dutifully practiced the organ, but at that point, he definitely wasn’t gunning for the pulpit.“My friends would’ve called me a smart-ass,” he says. “I was not particularly pious.”It was his attitude that encouraged...