Word: transplanting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...months into the couple's courtship, McNutt, who suffered from a congenital kidney disorder, had begun dialysis treatment and learned that he would eventually need a kidney transplant. Zauhar was eager to donate one of her kidneys, but doctors determined she was not a medical match. By December 1994, after McNutt had presented Zauhar with a 3 1/2-carat, $21,500 engagement ring, Dahl stepped forward as a willing and suitable donor with a gentleman's understanding, Dahl says, that McNutt would buy him a life-insurance policy, give him money to compensate for the pay he'd lose while recovering...
...make them headless? Slack tells the BBC, "Imagine reprogramming an egg in such a way that it didn't form a whole embryo but it just formed the organ you wanted, plus the heart and circulatory system." Yes, this is no mad science, but simply organ transplant research ? just as Dr. Ian Wilmut originally cloned Dolly the sheep to create a better glass of milk...
...Chinese regime is so gain-hungry (as Deng Xiaoping's famous slogan runs, "It is glorious to get rich") that it ekes profit out of political prisoners even after their death. The sale of organs of executed prisoners to foreigners willing to put up cash for a quick transplant is an approved practice in China. In life as in death, Chinese citizens are treated as government chattel...
...previous film, however, he projects a wheezy lack of mystery: a bad move in a role once played by Montgomery Clift. Finney and Smith are, as always, convincing, but they show no new sides of their prodigious talents. Smith's Lavinia, in particular, is a near-transplant of her kooky chaperone from A Room With a View...
Organizers could have actively tried to build awareness in the community for the thousands of people-of all races, backgrounds and occupations-desperately in need of a bone marrow transplant. Posters could have said, "Look at the plight of this one man; there are many more like him who could use your support." Organizers could have highlighted the dismal fact that only 3,000,000 people-barely more than one percent of the U.S. population-are registered in the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP). (By contrast, over two-and-a-half percent of Asian Americans, or 200,000 Asians...