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...most cases, public donation over private banking. That's because a child has only between one in 1,000 and one in 200,000 chance of needing an infusion of his own cord blood later in life. More public contributions would expand the ethnic diversity in the donor pool, which now predominantly favors Caucasian recipients. What's more, many conditions treated today with cord-blood stem cells are most successful when the donor is not related to the recipient, says Dr. Kent Christopherson, a hematologist at Chicago's Rush University Medical Center. "Odds are you'll never need your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Creating a Cord-Blood Lifeline | 2/26/2008 | See Source »

...competitiveness of the college applicant pool continues to soar, and the pressure on ambitious high school seniors to perform intensifies, administrators and students alike opine about the so-called “burn out” effect. Still recuperating from an overly stressful year, many incoming freshmen are ill-equipped to participate in university life. Princeton aims to counteract this phenomenon with its proposed “bridge year” program: an initiative enabling newly admitted students to pursue a year of international public service before delving into the pressures of campus life. Admission to the program would...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Opening Up the Gap | 2/24/2008 | See Source »

...takes this next step,” Smith wrote. “I have no doubt that he will excel in his new role.” Faculty across a broad range of academic disciplines at DePauw expressed excitement at Casey’s appointment from a pool of over 200 original applicants. “When you hear Dr. Casey talk, you can’t help but feel his passion and enthusiasm for being the next President of DePauw University,” Jacqueline R. Roberts, director of biochemistry at DePauw, said in an e-mailed statement. Leslie...

Author: By Prateek Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dean Leaves To Lead Depauw | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...naked man in the baby pool posed fetchingly on all fours. Krylon Superstar had just wriggled out of his tutu and sprinkled himself with glitter. It was time for the grand finale. A stagehand emerged to light a sparkler, which fizzed cheerfully, sending off little flickers of white light. The sparkler, of course, was sticking out of Krylon Superstar’s ass. Now in its eleventh year, the Sex Workers’ Art Show bills itself as a blend of consciousness-raising, entertainment, and titillation. The show’s national tour gives workers in the sex industry?...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Linear Perspective | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...extremely grateful.” The role was that of a servant, and the directors wanted him to be black. “It was on a quick, quick time deadline,” Williams says. “I figured the fastest way to get at a pool of actors was to email BlackCAST directly instead of sending indiscriminate mass emails.” As far as he knew, the BlackCAST presidents had no special reaction at all, but in reality Strong and his co-president were disturbed.“When we receive an e-mail asking...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Staging the Race Debate | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

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