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...April, the country recognized National Organ Donation week at the request of President Clinton. Considering how recently organ transplants became available, their use has grown dramatically in the world. However, with the establishment of Organ Donation week comes the need to assess the process's problems and the possible solutions...
While most acknowledge that the shortage of organ donors is a problem now and for the future, the drastic solution proposed will certainly undermine the present system. Rather than resorting to drastic measures, we should recognize the role of the media and education in combating apathy on the part of potential organ donors...
...single largest problem facing this country is the lack of organs for the number of people who need them. Many potential recipients die while on the waiting list. UNOS (United Network for Organ Sharing) estimates that of 21,982 patients on the waiting list in 1990, 2,200 of them died before receiving a transplant...
...vote liberal block--John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer--is cold comfort to those four and their supporters. Unless they can attract O'Connor or Kennedy to their side more often, the left wing of the court is in danger of becoming a vestigial organ, visible but pointless...
...though not as massive as St. Peter's, thischurch seats a huge congregation, boasts athunderous organ and requires an elevator to reachits chapel...