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...DIED. Sir Jack Cater, 84, Hong Kong corruption-fighter widely credited with eliminating endemic graft in the then colony in the 1970s; on Britain's Channel Island of Guernsey. As head of the newly formed Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), the ex-Royal Air Force squadron leader cracked down on the city's notoriously crooked police force and inefficient bureaucracy. He was appointed Hong Kong's Chief Secretary in 1978 under Governor Murray MacLehose, and later became its Commissioner to London before retiring from government...
...abstract. Because older patients often suffer from low bone density, the expanding screw would go into the vertebral body, creating a system with a greater holding capacity, she wrote in her abstract. Everett, who also placed second, collaborated with knee-injury specialists to improve testing for tendon graft orientation in injured knees. His device, which automates the testing process and makes it more dependable, is “about the most finished project I’ve seen in the fifteen years I’ve been working with this class,” Howe said. Parker said that these...
...finance scheme worth hundreds of millions of dollars and even paying a small right-wing party to jump on the PT's bandwagon before the electoral campaign started. Before Palocci's sudden exit, the party's president, treasurer and secretary-general had all resigned under the same suspicions of graft...
...charismatic social activist from the poor southern state of Tabasco, L?pez connects with Mexico's underdogs, especially when he stumps for deeper reform of Mexico's epically corrupt public life (though his own party had hardly been immune to graft in recent years). He promises to slash not only his presidential salary but push for a Constitutional amendment to cut and cap those of all high-ranking government officials. "You can't have a rich government and a poor population!" he insists in his speeches. "We have to transform the way we conduct politics here, without the arrogant, mediocre, lying...
Michelangelo Buonarroti was a methodical man. The Florentine genius made hundreds of working drawings during his career in preparation for his paintings, sculpture and architecture. But for reasons not entirely known, he burned many of them. It's possible that he didn't want people to know what hard graft went into the finished product. After all, when he started his career at the tail end of the 15th century, artists were seen as craftsmen rather than geniuses. His bourgeois father disapproved of his low-status career choice. Thankfully, however, about 600 of the drawings survive, and around 95 have...