Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Temptation is drenched in blood. The blood of sacrificed animals runs through the streets, blood unaccountably pours out of an apple Jesus eats and, at the Last Supper, the wine literally turns into blood. In one grotesque scene, Jesus reaches into his chest (though it looks more like his belly), yanks out his heart and holds it up for his apostles to admire...
...crime was perfect only in its ghoulish symbolism: the perpetrators allegedly drew blood from poor people, paying them as little as 50 cents a vial, then falsely claimed the samples came from Medicaid patients and billed the Government for millions of dollars' worth of bogus laboratory tests. The alleged Medicaid rip-off, for which a physician and nine others were indicted in New York City, was only the most lurid example in a chain gang of new and continuing fraud cases that shuffled across front pages last week. In virtually every one of half a dozen scams, members...
...Investigators in New York City uncovered a "blood-trafficking" ring in which suspects bought samples from drug addicts and other poor people and then sold the blood to medical labs that bilked the state's Medicaid program of at least $15 million for useless tests. At 14 of the 41 labs examined, investigators found sufficient improprieties to bar the operations immediately from the Medicaid program...
...million since 1986. The leaders of the ring were Surinder Panshi, 39, a Queens physician, and his father Gurdial Panshi, 68. The Panshis allegedly launched their scheme by buying three clinics that were authorized to conduct tests for Medicaid patients. They then established a network of blood collectors who combed poor neighborhoods for people willing to sell their blood for about $10 for 20 vials. The Panshi ring allegedly paid their collectors a lucrative $25 a vial, to which the suspects attached the forged signature of a physician who was supposedly requesting a test on the blood, along with...
...affair strained credulity from the outset, like the proverbial little man who wasn't there. Benveniste's researchers had diluted a solution of antibodies to such a degree that there was no likelihood that even a single molecule of the antibody remained. But, voila, when human white blood cells were exposed to the superdiluted solution, they apparently responded by releasing a chemical substance, as they would have if they had encountered the initial antibody solution. The effect only worked when the solution was shaken violently. Explained Benveniste: "It's like agitating a car key in the river, going miles downstream...