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...every means possible to give blood to those who need it. With summer blood shortages just ahead, we instead hope that the FDA will consider public welfare more important than the financial costs incurred in unbarring homosexuals from donation. The advent of universal HIV/AIDS testing has continued the vital dissociation of HIV/AIDS from homosexual behavior. Let’s continue in making this divorce permanent by kicking the permanent ban on gay blood donations...
Caldwell calls everything besides medical research “overhead costs.” ACS is paying employees, she argues, instead of funding scientists. If these employees are providing recently diagnosed patients with vital information over the phone, then we say keep...
...then, Gaddafi was looking hard for a way out of Libya's isolation, which was hurting its vital petroleum industry; in fact, U.S. oil companies were lobbying hard from the mid 1990s for a rehabilitation of Libya, in order to be there first in the upgrading of its aging oil infrastructure. As American and international sanctions were taking their toll and the stagnation was slowly killing Gadfhafi's regime, he offered a major gesture, turning Libyan intelligence agents over for trial in the downing of of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland...
...stands to lose more than $500 million a month in visitor dollars. J. Stephen Perry, head of the Convention and Visitors Board, says the empty and damaged hotels "are like Baghdad on a bad day." But for the national economy, what's more critical is that Katrina disrupted a vital node in the country's transport network. You name the commodity--coffee, fertilizer, lumber, steel, wheat--it ships through the Gulf's ports, rails and riverways. All told, Katrina knocked out a region that contributes $130 billion to GDP, roughly 1% of the national total, according to Economy.com Risk Management...
...future.”The OFA also honored six outstanding student artists this weekend, including Zoe M. Savitsky ’07 with the Louise Donovan award. She applauded the event for bringing the greater Harvard community together in celebration of the arts.“Arts First is vital to [Harvard] because it highlights just how significant the arts are to so many undergraduates, regardless of their concentration.”One of the weekend’s main attractions was the 2006 Harvard Arts Medal ceremony, where the former-choir-boy-turned-savage-satirist Christopher F. Durang...