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...voluntary donations from all sources* yield 85% of the 8.5 million pints of whole blood used in the U.S. each year. For the rest, blood banks must buy blood, sometimes from alcoholics and drug addicts desperate for a bottle or a fix. To satisfy the growing demand for plasma, a blood component used in emergency treatment, research and vaccine production, some companies have even gone abroad. Several American firms are buying plasma in Puerto Rico and South America and, according to unconfirmed reports, underdeveloped West African nations. One American-owned firm, Hemo Caribbean, buys blood for plasma from Haitian peasants...
...federal regulations will require the licensing of all U.S. blood banks and plasma suppliers, including those importing from abroad; the new rules, though not as strict as A.A.B.B. regulations, may reduce the health risks somewhat. Even more promising is an A.A.B.B. plan to eliminate the need for commercial blood. The association proposes that blood banks increase the supply of donor blood by offering such nonmonetary rewards as arranging for donors to get transportation to hospitals, awards, or even prize coupons for participating in blood programs. The organization believes that such measures, together with an intensified promotion campaign, could meet...
...intense magnetic fields generated by currents of as high as a trillion amperes, and usually occur in pairs consisting of one positively charged and one negatively charged spot. As a result of this opposing polarity, lines of magnetic force link the spots, keeping gases trapped within them. Because hotter plasma from the sun's interior cannot move into the sunspots, they remain relatively cooler (and darker) than the rest of the photosphere...
Unique among the world's leading scientific organizations, the Max Planck Society operates 52 separate institutions, all pursuing different lines of basic research. The semiautonomous units range in size from the 1,000-man Plasma Physics Institute, site of the fusion experiments, to the tiny four-man Limnological Institute, which has pioneered the use of rush and reed cultures to purify industrial-waste water. The institutes do no secret research, accept few military or industrial contracts, and can pick their own areas of investigation. Largely government-funded (about 90%), they have experienced little political unrest or "brain drain...
...Hughes traveled, an extensive airlift began on Wednesday night to remove his personal belongings from the ninth-floor suite at the Britannia Beach. Workers loaded three flatbed trucks with his paraphernalia: a refrigerator, a hospital bed with railings, a hospital stand of the kind used to hold aloft blood plasma, six television sets, many cartons of purified water, motorized reclining chairs, numerous pots and pans. Said CBS-TV Producer Don Hewitt, who was vacationing on Nassau and happened to see part of the move: "It didn't look like a rich man's stuff. It looked like Archie...