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...remarkable physical progress. She still has open wounds in her right hand and elbow, but with the hole in her knee filled with matrix, a collagen product, it now bends almost perfectly. She has lost count of the number of times doctors have harvested skin from her thighs to graft onto her burned torso and arm. She's had five operations on her elbow alone and must wear a full bodysuit--"my black catsuit," she calls it--to prevent further scarring. She had to learn how to walk through her pain after surgeons took the tough skin from the sole...
...make a clean break from crime. - By Chris Thornton Bank Order SWITZERLAND The Supreme Court ordered the return to Nigeria of $458 million in accounts held by late military leader Sani Abacha. The Nigerian government has promised to spend the funds on health, education and infrastructure. Hard Graft? TURKEY Former Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz appeared in court on corruption charges, the country's highest-ranking official ever to do so. The three-time PM is accused of rigging the privatization of a state-owned bank in favor of a businessman with alleged ties to the Mafia. He faces a minimum...
...DIED. ALFRED SIRVEN, 77, former senior executive of French oil company Elf-Aquitaine, jailed for his role in France's biggest-ever corporate-graft scandal; in Deauville, France. Sirven and his boss, Loik Le Floch Prigent, were convicted in November 2003 of siphoning large sums?Sirven alone allegedly amassed over $222 million?from the then state-owned Elf-Aquitaine between 1989 and 1993 to buy political favors and fund luxurious lifestyles. Sirven received five years in jail in 2001 and was released last May on probation...
Imagine that a United States government program, Medicaid for example, had lost more than 20 billion dollars to blatant graft and corruption. Imagine that the executive director of that program had himself benefited personally to the tune of millions of dollars. Imagine that the President’s son was under serious suspicion of being involved in the scandal. Imagine that the “independent” government investigation was being paid for with funds from the program itself. Imagine that some of the money skimmed off was used to fund a terrorist insurgency. Finally, imagine that the scandal...
...fight himself? “Wesley is getting old,” Goyer admits. “He is still in good shape but he simply cannot do the stunts he was able to for the first Blade film. In a couple of scenes I actually used CGI to graft his face onto that of a stunt double...