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Many have become fed up with the lack of organ donors in this country and want to institute changes to increase their number. Up to now, education has been the preferred method of increasing donations in the United States. Although many Americans understand the need for organ donors, they have not acted according to those beliefs...
...wrong. It asks people to sell their body parts for money. The idea of setting a price for as invaluable a gift as an organ is morally reprehensible. It leads to fears about the wealthy procuring organs much faster and leaving the poor at an incredible disadvantage. Also, this method has been tried in Third World nations. The chaos it has created in Egypt with a black market for organs should steer other countries away from trying...
...seemed until an extraordinary vote last Tuesday in Southern California's Orange County. Since its former treasurer bankrupted the county last year by gambling on high-risk investments, Orange has searched for ways to back up its $2 billion debt. The traditional method for large municipalities in trouble has been a sales-tax increase. But last week, by a 3-to-2 ratio, Orange County's voters spurned tradition and rejected an increase. Their decision plunged the county's future -- and perhaps that of municipal bonds -- into uncertainty. Says county chief executive William Popejoy: "We have shot ourselves, not necessarily...
...Pittsburgh, where he gradually devoted his studies to polio. When he began his work, medical wisdom held that vaccines, to be effective, should use live viruses that had been rendered harmless in the laboratory. Salk believed it would be possible to make a vaccine using killed viruses; this method, he thought, was preferable since it carried less risk of actually causing the disease the vaccine was meant to prevent. When animal tests on an experimental vaccine proved successful, he moved on to human tests in which he and his family were among the first subjects to be injected...
...Salk's peers in medical research. Instead many of them resented him as a man who reaped the glory for work that had been pioneered by less celebrated scientists all around the world. By 1962 Dr. Albert Sabin's oral vaccine, derived from live viruses, had become the preferred method of inoculation in the U.S., and Sabin was bitter about Salk's earlier triumph. Just a few years before his own death in 1993 Sabin claimed that "Salk didn't discover anything." Salk himself was often uncomfortable with the fuss made over him. He made a point of crediting others...