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...California jury has determined that Health Net, the state's second largest HMO, must pay $89.1 million in compensatory and punitive damages to the family of a now deceased cancer patient denied coverage for a bone-marrow transplant, a procedure that the HMO considers experimental. The company will appeal...
...theory that birds are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs has received more confirmation from some baby maiasaur bones found in Montana. As reported in Science, the evidence comes in the form of fossilized growth plates -- disks of cartilage found at the ends of bones -- which act as a sort of scaffolding around which new bone can grow. The plates are found in mammals, reptiles and birds -- but the structure of the dinosaur plates was clearly birdlike...
...worst experience in my life." Embeth Davidtz agrees. She was in one of these scenes, nude, her head shaved. "It's not like a love scene where you disrobe and there's something in the moment. Here I'm standing there like a plucked chicken, nothing but skin and bone." That is to say, stripped of human dignity...
...last-chance saloons, has never taken deader aim at the line that separates the mordant from the maudlin. On the one hand, there's November, a bitter hymn to the month that "only believes in a pile of dead leaves/ And a moon that's the color of bone." On the other, there's I'll Shoot the Moon, in which Kathchen, daydreaming about her lover, vows to "be the pennies on your eyes" and "build a nest in your hair...
...bail after having been charged in two deaths under Michigan's law banning assisted suicides, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the controversial right-to-die crusader, attended the suicide of Dr. Ali Khalili, 61, a rehabilitation physician suffering from extreme pain caused by bone cancer. It was the 20th suicide that Kevorkian had attended since...