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 ===== An editorial decision =====
-Portland, Oregon, 1997. The Reed College %%//%%Quest%%//%% editors meet to discuss an inquiry about a classified ad.
+Portland, Oregon, 1997. The Reed College //Quest// editors meet to discuss an inquiry about a classified ad.
 Nobody involved can remember what it said. It was something like this:
-“WANTED Healthy female student to help bring joy to an infertile couple. Will pay $3000 plus all medical expenses for a donation of several eggs. Candidates should have a minimum GPA of 3.5 and minimum combined SAT scores of 1600.”
+**“WANTED Healthy female student to help bring joy to an infertile couple. Will pay $3000 plus all medical expenses for a donation of several eggs. Candidates should have a minimum GPA of 3.5 and minimum combined SAT scores of 1600.”
+**
-(GPA: grade point average, 3.5 is approximately a WAM of 80. SATs are college entrace exams. Under the old system, 1600 would have been close to an ATAR of 95.)
+(GPA: grade point average, 3.5 is approximately a WAM of 80. SATs are college entrance exams. Under the old system, 1600 would have been close to an ATAR of 95.)
 ===== Human trafficking? =====
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   * University students (women who have more and better-quality ova).
   * Preferred hair and eye color.
-  * Prefered race.
+  * Preferred race.
-  * Prefered school. Ivy-league (Harvard, Yale, etc.) schools are especially popular, as are Berkeley and Stanford.
+  * Preferred school. Ivy-league (Harvard, Yale, etc.) schools are especially popular, as are Berkeley and Stanford.
 ===== Not for sale? =====
-Unlike many countries, the sale of gametes is largely unregulated in the US, and the US has generally looser regulations on IVF and surrogacy. ([[:tissue-sale.pdf|PDF version]].)
+Unlike many countries, the sale of gametes is largely unregulated in the US, and the US has generally looser regulations on IVF and surrogacy. ({{:tissue-sale.pdf|PDF version}}.)
 {{:tissue-sale.jpg|A table comparing the legal status of the commercial sale of different kinds of human tissue and surrogacy services in several different countries and jurisdictions.}}
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 One of the ways societies respond to market forces is by placing limits on individual choices
-  * Wamira (Papua New Guinea) taro gardens can’t be tended with metal tools (**kahn_always_1993?**)
+  * Wamira (Papua New Guinea) taro gardens can’t be tended with metal tools (Kahn [1986] 1993)
   * When Luo (Kenya) people sell land, they earn “bitter money” (Shipton 1989)
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 Jaworski, Peter M. 2020. “Not Compensating Canadian Blood Plasma Donors Means Potentially Risky Reliance on Foreign Plasma.” //The Conversation// (blog). August 14, 2020. http://theconversation.com/not-compensating-canadian-blood-plasma-donors-means-potentially-risky-reliance-on-foreign-plasma-143970.
+Kahn, Miriam. (1986) 1993. //Always Hungry, Never Greedy: Food and the Expression of Gender in a Melanesian Society//. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 Klitzman, Robert, and Mark V. Sauer. 2015. “Creating and Selling Embryos for ‘Donation’: Ethical Challenges.” //American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology// 212 (2): 167–170.e1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2014.10.1094.