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Bear gallbladders fetch about $18,000 each in Asia, where they are converted into tablet form and taken as a panacea. Conservation officials are worried that high prices for bear parts will bring an increase in illegal bear killings. Most endangered is the grizzly, of which only 1,000 are left in the continental U.S. But not only bears are taken -- sometimes customers are too. Many dealers pass off pig gallbladders as the genuine article...
Sure, these proctors try to make themselves useful. They hand out extra blue books and will fetch you a pencil. They tell you when to put your pencils down. They pass out the blank exams and collect the blue books we have filled with wisdom...
...raised four children but otherwise, in Madison's eyes, produced nothing except obscure poetry for 25 years. He drove old cars and wore old clothes, and when Vietnam came around, he talked like a communist. His father, Jacob Bly, was a respected farmer who turned alcoholic. Robert had to fetch him out of the bars downtown sometimes...
...units. In the northern city of Arbil, all premature infants are dying: there are no working incubators. In the southern city of Karbala, a hospital without refrigeration relies on a makeshift method to acquire blood for transfusions: the staff sends a young man running out of the hospital to fetch a person with the proper blood type, who will give blood as the operation progresses...
...miles away. Ujantia never had any vehicles, not even bicycles, so the only way to get to the well is to walk there, and that can take two hours. Relief workers are providing single women and babies with water, but have told those families with male members to fetch it themselves. Contaminated water has already sickened more than 300 children with diarrhea. A Red Crescent doctor treated the youngsters for three days. Then he ran out of medicine and left...