Word: castillos
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...Barcelona Stem Cell-ebration European physicians have announced the success of a breakthrough procedure in which a woman's windpipe was rebuilt using her own stem cells. The operation, performed on 30-year-old Claudia Castillo this past June, seeded a stripped-down segment of a donor's trachea with stem cells from Castillo's bone marrow, ensuring a perfect tissue match and reducing the likelihood of transplant rejection. The procedure has been championed as a milestone that could pave the way for radical improvements in organ transplants and the treatment of serious diseases...
...recipient of the transplant surgery, which took place in June, is Claudia Lorena Castillo Sánchez, a 30-year-old Colombian mother of two who lives in Barcelona. A cough she developed in 2004 was later diagnosed as tuberculosis, and by March of this year, her condition worsened to the point where one bronchus - the extension of the trachea that connects to the lung itself - was blocked. The only possible conventional treatment was to remove one of her lungs, a procedure that would have dramatically impaired her quality of life...
...dealing with a far-reaching corruption scandal that began Oct. 5, with the release of a secretly taped audio of two men talking about how they could grease the wheels for a Norwegian company to get oil and gas concessions in country. Garcia and his Cabinet chief, Jorge del Castillo, hastily called a press conference as soon as the audio was played on a local news show, trying to put distance between themselves and the men on the tape, who are also members of ruling APRA party...
...wake of the controversy, Garcia was forced to do cabinet-cleansing. The first to go was the energy and mines minister, but his resignation was not enough for the opposition. Lawmakers wanted more and eventually compelled Del Castillo and the remaining 15 ministers to step down...
Until his wandering eye settles upon the astonishingly beautiful, much younger Consuela Castillo (Penelope Cruz, whose performance is entrancingly eager yet reserved). They enter upon an affair, which is only slightly marred by his jealousy, which is partly ex post facto (he takes an unusual interest in her previous lovers) and partly contemporary (who's that guy you're having dinner with tonight?) and by the fact that, despite age and cultural differences, she truly loves him. He prefers to concentrate on mentoring her and, speaking frankly, on her breasts, which he not unreasonably regards as the most gorgeous...