Word: transplante
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...hardest part about Harvard is getting in.” False. From infected shoulder wounds at the women’s fencing tryouts, to considering getting cozy with a TF in order to nail the English 168d lottery, to that awkward, on-site liver transplant at the Sigma Chi (drinking) Olympics, hardly anything at Harvard happens without a bit of blood, tears, and competition. Sadly, life for the wannabe starlets is no different. The process to be selected for Harvard’s fall dramatic productions is an intense commotion of tryouts, callbacks (or no callbacks), and more callbacks...
...issues before us require both a hunger for truth and a humility about recognizing it, because progress can sprint right past our ability to process it. Blood transfusions were considered creepy before World War II. Transplant a heart? That's not just a pump, critics said; it's the seat of your soul. You hardly ever hear the chilly term test-tube baby anymore, because what was once odd and unnatural is now a routine salvation to millions of childless couples...
...transplant the work of an author who exercised such meticulous control over his plays that he itemized the number of seconds between pauses, the precise level of gloomy light? Presumably Beckett meant "First Love" and the novel trilogy to remain in the forms in which he created them. Yet there's reason in Colgan's audacity. He wanted to prove that even Beckett's fiction has theatrical verve, that the static can be dramatic, that pieces written for the eye can entrance the ear, that, for this most "internal" author, the page was also a stage. Colgan's strongest case...
...perhaps the television coup of the season. Live on the Phil Donahue show last Tuesday, a call was placed to Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids. Looking on were Donahue's guests for the day: the parents of a California infant known as Baby Jesse, who desperately needed a heart transplant. A spokeswoman for the hospital got on the line and was persuaded to reveal the impossibly good news: ''We are donating a heart to the baby,'' she declared. The cameras closed in on Jesse's stunned parents as they broke into cries of joy, smiles and tears. The audience went...
When the patient is a child, the ability of parents to provide care becomes relevant. Young transplant recipients require constant monitoring for rejection, lifelong medication and special precautions to avoid infection. For these reasons, says Ethicist Arthur Caplan of the Hastings Center at Hastings- on-Hudson, N.Y., Loma Linda officials ''were definitely right in considering ) whether the family can monitor and care for the baby effectively.'' Jesse's surgeon, Leonard Bailey, also defended the hospital. ''You can't serve up hearts like cherries jubilee,'' he exclaimed. ''The family has to be very dependable and constant.'' While Loma Linda refused...