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Under this system, though, accidents of geography can create dramatic inequities. A patient who could afford to wait in, say, Dallas might get an organ that could have gone to someone on the brink of death in nearby Fort Worth, Texas. Varying patterns of supply and demand can create tenfold differences in waiting times. According to computer models cited by the government, these inefficiencies cost as many as 300 lives each year. Says John Fung, transplant director at the University of Pittsburgh: "There's no justification to keep the current system...
...equity argument is a smoke screen for a baser motive. They point out that transplants are down dramatically in big centers as smaller regional centers have proliferated. The University of Pittsburgh, for example, did 540 liver transplants in 1991, but only 200 last year. The cost per patient can be as high as $300,000. "You're talking millions and millions of dollars lost to those big transplant centers," says Iowa surgeon Maureen Martin...
...reason I struck out so much is because I wanted to do everything myself," Sosa told TIME. "Now I am willing to take a walk or a base hit. I'm having a lot of fun in '98 because I'm disciplined, and I learned a lot to be patient." He says he's cut out the late nightclubbing he used to do when he first moved to Chicago. "I used to be kind of wild," he says, until he got married, "six or eight years ago." When you're a baseball player, you've got a lot of numbers...
...with the well-known players like Baker Hughes and Schlumberger, where insiders have bought $1.6 million and $286,000 worth of stock since June. Or buy a good sector fund like AIM Global Resources or Fidelity Select Energy Services. And be patient. We won't see a big pop in these stocks until East Asia bottoms...
Forget, for a moment, the hubbub about human cloning. French surgeons on Wednesday wrote another page of science fiction into the medical books by sewing a dead man's hand onto a living patient. A multinational team of doctors working in Lyon spent three and a half hours transplanting the hand and part of an arm from a brain-dead donor to a 48-year-old Austrialian businessman who lost his lower arm in a logging accident almost a decade ago. [Ed. Note: In a bizarre twist, it was later reported that the patient actually lost his limb using...