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Stephen G. McCombe, former president and founder of the Harvard University Security, Parking, and Museum Guard Union (HUSPMGU) and longtime Harvard employee, died last month of multiple organ failure...
...score of the film A Clockwork Orange. In a March 7, 1969, story, we described the workings of the Moog: "The electronic synthesizer that bears [Moog's] name?a 4-ft.[1.25-m]-long contraption that looks like the control panel of a jet airliner with an organ keyboard grafted onto it?is by far the most effective device yet developed to produce electronic sounds. Besides serving as an 'orchestra' for works by avant-garde composers, the Moog (rhymes with vogue) produced the bing-bong theme that for years preceded all CBS-TV color shows ... Composer John Eaton says...
Sunday, Oct. 16. E. Power Biggs Celebrity Organ Recital. Herman Jordaan, a star South African organist, will play a solo recital on Harvard’s 1958 D.A. Flentrop Organ. 7:30 p.m. Adolphus Busch Hall. Tickets $15; students and seniors $10. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office or online...
...kidney. Although many patients have loved ones who are willing to donate a kidney, incompatible blood types or antibodies often make the transplants impossible. As a result, most patients wait three to seven years for a kidney from a cadaver--which lasts only half as long as an organ from a live donor. To help solve this problem, Segev and Gentry devised a way to improve kidney-paired donation, which involves matching a patient who has a willing but incompatible donor with a donor-patient pair who have the same dilemma. In a swap, the donor from the first pair...
...that technique to heart specialists, in large part because they were simply outnumbered. As for who is best at reading cardiac CT scans, cardiologists argue that they have a better understanding of the heart's anatomy and function, while radiologists point out that the heart is not the only organ that shows up on the images and needs to be evaluated. Some hospitals have split the difference, decreeing that a cardiologist and a radiologist should analyze each cardiac scan...