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Even if these obstacles are surmounted, there remains the problem of finding donors. "Because we have only 6,000 [dead] organ donors a year, there's no way we can fulfill the need for the millions that could benefit," says Ricordi. "And even if we could figure out a way to harvest cells from live donors, that's likely to only increase the number of transplants from a few thousand to tens of thousands...
...four of his limbs at once,” marveled Professor of Mathematics Noam D. Elkies, who is also a musician and composer. “What we do is like playing with one hand on the piano—and he’s playing an organ...
...Cursive – The Ugly Organ (Saddle Creek...
Cursive are so busy winking at themselves throughout The Ugly Organ that most critics chose to write them off as insufferably pretentious. But the self-referential lyrics, an attempt to analyze the efforts of your average indie rocker, are mostly successful. It’s the sort of album Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst would be writing if girls didn’t keep destroying him. The disc’s strongest element is its assonant buried melodies, formed by a rather unsettling mash of orchestral gestures and bloated guitar blasts...
...like “Long Shadow.” Strummer even carries off a straight-up cover of “Redemption Song,” playing it as straight and simple as possible and letting the words and the weight of his voice speak for themselves. As the organ creeps in towards the end of the song, you realise you are in the presence of majesty...