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...issues that would make the tissue marginal for transplant. That's especially important, since in recent years, the quality of donated kidneys has declined, due in part to the typical donor's advanced age and increase in accumulated health problems and diseases. Given the dwindling of an already small pool of viable organs, many patients are choosing to obtain kidneys from living donors - usually close relatives, who must undergo an extremely invasive and dangerous operation to donate the organ. But machine preservation, if used more widely, could help curb that trend, says Ploeg. "When we have good kidneys from deceased...
Space constraints and the largest college applicant pool in history created an unusual year for Harvard admissions. In March, Harvard notified over a thousand transfer applicants that it would accept none of them and halt transfer admissions for two years, dismaying potential admits—particularly at Deep Springs, a two-year college with a long tradition of Harvard transfers. And spurred by this same caution about residential constraints, the admissions office took a conservative approach to applicants for the class of 2012, announcing the lowest admissions rate in recent memory, before admitting an unprecedented 200 students off the wait...
...midday, Obama decided to take family and friends out for a dose of shave ice, a local refreshment, and a visit to Sea Life Park, a popular aquarium located on a rocky point near a lighthouse on Oahu's Windward side. Tourists who were inside showed pool reporters photographs they took of Obama and his group. Obama was wearing a casual cream-colored shirt tucked into olive shorts and sandals. The Obamas and friends were seen attending the dolphin show, tourists said, which featured dolphins and their trainers in a large tank overlooking the ocean. About five hours after they...
...Village Vanguard, she was cast in the Leonard Sillman revue New Faces of 1952 and given one of her signature songs, the bored-with-love "Monotonous." ("I met a rather amusing fool / While on my way to Istanbul. /He bought me the Black Sea for my swimming pool. / Monotonous.") Two years later, Kitt reprised her bits in a filmed version of the show released by 20th Century-Fox. (See pictures of the movies' best loved outfits...
...just the right outfits, so he reconsidered. "I ran right out and bought Vegas-y clothes - like minidresses," she laughs. "We flew first-class to Vegas and stayed at the Venetian...We ate at the most incredible restaurants - places like Bouchon - and he hung out with me by the pool, which was a big sacrifice for a pasty white guy." Though the two have since parted ways, she still remembers the vacation and the sentiment, if not the boyfriend, fondly...