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...later forming the modern state out of three unconnected provinces inhabited by Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites. Iraqi nationalists quickly became disillusioned with their new, Western masters. The Revolution of 1920 left hundreds of British casualties. The British, America's main ally in this latest invasion, managed to implant a friendly monarchy. But the Hashemites were finally overthrown in a coup d'etat in 1958. It was in those bloody days that Saddam Hussein's terrible political career was born...
...years of living in pain brought on by her failing organs, the teenager finally matched with a heart-lung donor and was admitted to Duke University Medical Center in early February for a double-organ transplant. Thursday morning, after her body rejected the first set of new organs mistakenly implanted with the wrong blood type, Santillan lies in her hospital bed fighting for her life after a second implant procedure. Early reports indicate the second transplant has been successful; Jesica is given a 50 percent chance of survival...
...claims of success, even before she began backing off her promise of providing proof. No one has yet succeeded in cloning a primate despite thousands of tries; efforts at a dog have so far failed as well. Even among other mammals, more than 90% of the embryos never implant or die before or soon after birth. Among those most dismissive of her entire operation are the other researchers rushing to beat it, such as Italian fertility specialist Severino Antinori. He missed his own deadline, having announced last spring that he had a clone due in November. But he is quite...
...Omen Following the recent abduction and murder of two 10-year-old girls in England, a cybernetics expert offered to implant tracking microchips in children so they can be located if they're abducted...
...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, an orthopedic surgeon in Atlanta. "The probability of an accident is low, and the probability of dying in an accident is lower," he says. "Does that mean we should ban cars?" --Reported by Greg Land, Greg Fulton...