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...building on the work of Harvard economists, the New England Organ Bank has set up a database that facilitates kidney exchanges. For instance, if one type-A donor could not give his kidney to an ill type-B brother, and another type-B donor couldn’t give his kidney to an ill type-A sister, the two families might swap organs under the new system...
...first thing he learned was that people tend to react irrationally--rushing to the hospital before they have symptoms, for example, or staying home even when they are desperately ill. "The problem is that the more irrational the public's reactions to an outbreak, the harder it becomes to control and contain the disease," says Galea. Also, the harder the economy is hit: the Congressional Budget Office recently put the potential costs of a flu pandemic in the U.S. at $675 billion-half of it caused by fear and confusion...
...Tuesday, workers from some 200 electric companies stretching across the Midwest were ready to fan out across the tiny town of Jerome, Ill., and the surrounding Springfield area to continue the heavy task of fixing an electrical system effectively laid to waste during the powerful storms and tornadoes that tore through parts of the Midwest through the weekend. At least 10 people were confirmed dead from the storms that hopscotched across Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and other Midwest states...
...BORCHERDING, R.N. Peoria, Ill...
...deeper, more vicious war has so far failed to prod the country's leaders into setting aside their rivalries and forming a broadly representative government, which may be the U.S.'s best hope for subduing the insurgency. The task of bringing together Iraqis torn by bloodshed and ill will has fallen to Khalilzad, the gregarious, glad-handing Afghan-born diplomat, who says he enjoys "getting my hands dirty in the grubby aspects of politics and policymaking." But the dilemma for Khalilzad is the one facing the Bush Administration as it tries to find an honorable way out of Iraq: Once...