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...want to fight." Whoever wins will face the same old problems. Kenya's economy has been battered by two decades of corruption and negligence. The coffee industry has withered due to mismanagement and falling prices. Foreign investment and donor money have all but dried up because of worries over graft. Tourism is sure to be hit by the recent terrorist bombing in Mombasa. One in seven people is infected with hiv/aids, while more than half the population of 31 million lives on less than a dollar a day. "It's almost overwhelming," says Chege Waitara, an analyst with the Institute...
...tissue. "We know the cadaver that killed Brian was unrefrigerated for at least 19 hours, but nobody knows how long it had been dead before that," says Keenan. Another teenager who received tissue from the same cadaver that infected Lykins also developed an infection and had to have his graft removed...
...would anyone choose to receive donated tissue? If there is no postoperative infection, a patient's recovery time can be much faster than if a graft is taken from his or her own body. A surgeon can more easily, and less invasively, replace knee ligaments with cadaver tissue than with a portion of a patient's own hamstring or tendon. Of course, the risk of infection can never be eliminated in any operation. But it can be managed. Ultimately, patients must weigh the risks of an implant against the benefits. It's like driving a car, says Dr. Rick Hammesfahr...
Abba had it so much easier. The Swedish rock group (whose leaders, Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, had been burned on Broadway once before, with their 1988 musical Chess) simply sat back and let a bunch of other folks take Abba's hit songs, graft them onto a flimsy story about a girl looking for her real dad on her wedding day and turn Mamma Mia! into a smash hit on Broadway--and just about everywhere else in the Western world...
...cited the importance of the late Henry Hampton—owner and president of Blackside Inc., as well the executive producer of the mini-series—in creating the documentary, saying “wonderful divine intervention” and hard graft contributed to the immense success of the project...