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...important thing to remember is that this is not a matter of humanitarian issues versus practical ones. A sick child's need for an organ transplant is also a humanitarian issue. The case of Theresa Ann forces us to question whether a baby without the capacity for sentient experience can even be an object of humanitarian concern--whether, in fact, she can be called human...
When Beth Ann begins to worry about the car dealer she didn't pick, the unfunded college student and the child still awaiting the transplant, the hosts gloss over her anxiety. As they croon to her that they "feel so warm and wonderful...in one big happy family," they mock the illusion of the American dream...
...Tsongas will suffer a relapse or a secondary cancer are difficult to gauge. After conventional treatments failed to eradicate his disease, he underwent a more radical procedure that is too new for doctors to have data on long-term survival rates. The procedure, known as an autologous bone-marrow transplant, was designed to overcome the basic limitation faced by all conventional cancer therapies: in doses sufficient to do their job, they can destroy the bone marrow, the mother lode of all blood cells, red and white. By removing a portion of the bone marrow (and purging it separately of tumor...
Freejack redeems itself in the end with its intricate and somewhat psychedelic computerized journey into the minds of Furlong and McCandless during the bodily transplant...
...There is decidedly a disadvantage for American producers. It's very simple. We're a much longer-established manufacturer with an older work force, a great number of pensioners. When you have a new Japanese transplant, the average age is much younger, with no pension cost and usually a healthier, newer work force. Even if we do better on our production side and do better on our material costs, we've still got that overhang of pensions and health care to take care of. That's something as a nation we'll have to address, because it's going...