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Surgery is, however, just the beginning of the woman's medical odyssey. She must take powerful drugs for the rest of her life to ensure that her immune system does not reject the graft. Of all the tissues in the body, the skin provokes a particularly strong rejection response, which makes sense when you consider that one of its functions is to act as a barrier against germs. The weakened immune system that results from the drugs also increases the risk of cancer...
...doctors hope to further reduce the danger of rejection by injecting the patient with stem cells taken from the bone marrow of the original donor. That is an experimental approach in which the donated stem cells should, in effect, teach the woman's immune system to tolerate the graft...
...SENTENCED. HUANG JINGAO, 53, Communist Party whistleblower who exposed graft in local government; to life in prison on charges of taking $715,000 in bribes; in Fuzhou, China. Huang gained widespread popular support in August 2004, when the People's Daily website posted a letter from him describing corruption in Fujian province. Huang's supporters claim the conviction is part of an effort to discredit...
...Graft Italian-Style Peter Gumbel's "Land Without Shame" [Oct. 10] argued that Italy is mired in corruption and that "a corrosive mindset has crept into Italy's political and business culture over the past decade." That is no surprise to Italians. Italy has always been a country where corruption is part of our daily life. It takes a payoff to get a job, a better hospital room, an account with a public utility or even a funeral. Sometimes such payments surface and become a scandal. Few try to fight corruption; most just accept it and learn to manage...
...route. Over the past decade, officials say, the Calabrian clan has evolved into Europe's leading cocaine trafficker, with a network extending from Europe to South and North America and Australia. Its members are also deeply into related criminal enterprises like arms dealing, toxic-waste dumping, money laundering and graft from public-works contracts. Last week, Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu declared that 'Ndrangheta is "the most entrenched, most powerful, and most aggressive of Italy's large criminal organizations...