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...three candidates for a heart transplant dies before a suitable heart becomes available. At New York's Montefiore Medical Center, 25 out of 30 patients have died over the past two years while waiting for a new lung. Infant donors are rarest of all. "Pediatric organs are more priceless than gold," says Brian Broznick of the University of Pittsburgh Transplant Foundation...
...tone throughout It Came from Hollywood is one of jolly contempt-an attitude that might better be reserved for such recent films as Hanky Panky, Neighbors, Stripes or any Cheech and Chong picture. The detritus of movie history deserves better; one man's junk is another's priceless antique...
...name. When his daughter was married in 1979, Romanov is said to have ordered the Hermitage Museum to hand over Catherine the Great's dinner service for the reception. Conservative Kremlin leaders could hardly have been pleased by subsequent press reports in the West that carousing guests smashed priceless pieces of the royal china. But if the aging post-Brezhnev leadership is in need of some new blood, Romanov could always be brought to Moscow to learn proper table manners...
...success couldn't eclipse a growing list of irregularities and abuses. They were damaging, as Lo Schiavo realized, "the university's priceless assets, its integrity and its reputation." The recent revelation that an alum had paid star guard Quintin Dailey (since lured to the NBA by big bucks) for a summer job he never performed was only the latest in a string of disclosures of illegal alumni interference with the program and recruiting improprieties by coaches. The university, already the subject of two recent National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) investigations, was facing still further scrutiny from the governing body...
...some length last week during the 21st Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Governors' Conference in Des Moines, is control of the water. Containing some 67 trillion gal. of fresh water, enough to cover all of the U.S. to a depth of 10 ft., the Great Lakes are a priceless asset to those who live and work along their shores. More than 24 million people in the U.S. and Canada depend on them for drinking water. Industries in both countries draw off 55 billion gal. a year...