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Seventeen-year-old Jesica Santillan was supposed to be one of the lucky ones. After years of living in pain brought on by her failing organs, the teenager finally matched with a heart-lung donor and was admitted to Duke University Medical Center in early February for a double-organ transplant. Thursday morning, after her body rejected the first set of new organs mistakenly implanted with the wrong blood type, Santillan lies in her hospital bed fighting for her life after a second implant procedure. Early reports indicate the second transplant has been successful; Jesica is given a 50 percent...
...Santillan, whose family was smuggled out of Mexico three years ago, spent the last several days close to death; after the first transplant, her type O-positive blood attacked the type A organs. Tuesday afternoon, her mother pleaded through the media for a new donor. "Please help me find the organs that my daughter needs to live," she said. Those pleas were answered late Wednesday night, when a new double-donor was identified...
Watching the film was "one of those things that you actually thought about for the rest of the day," said Claudia Santillan '00. Tilby showed the film to her animation students in class showings that also included several of this year's other nominees...
...think Mahathir's decision for Malaysia to sever its ties with the world's economies will result in neighboring Asian countries deeply affected by the current crisis jumping on the bandwagon. This was a crucial maneuver to avert further deterioration of Malaysia's economy, now near collapse. SANCHO A. SANTILLAN JR. Quezon City, the Philippines...