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...After all, most of the visitors to this newly built ski resort in China's northeast only began strapping on ski boots in the last couple of years. Few know how to negotiate a gentle slope without a few spills-or realize that the dried squid and sauteed pig kidney on the mountain-lodge menu are not usual ski-resort fare. "Now that Chinese have more money, they are looking for new forms of entertainment," says Yu Huiyang, the vice manager of Lotus Mountain, which opened last year near the northeastern city of Changchun and now draws 1,000 people...
...pressure and has made no changes to his production. Still, the heat caused some of his financing to dry up, forcing him to raise additional funds in a rather unorthodox manner: in return for a loan of about $20,000 from one backer, he says, he put his kidney?yes, his kidney?up as collateral...
...seems clear that the benefits of calcium and vitamin D supplements are small for most women and probably fairly modest even for those at greatest risk of cancer or bone loss. In addition, the studies found that women who take extra calcium have a 17% greater risk of developing kidney stones...
...Lori Ferguson wishes her father hadn?t been one of them. George Ott, 63, of Brookfield, Connecticut was used to being in good shape. He ate properly and went to the gym regularly. Then came a diagnosis of kidney cancer in August, 2005. ?Ott chose to go to the Hospital Santa Monica in Rosarito, Mexico because the options given to him by American doctors had the potential of causing taxing side effects. Ferguson says her father soon faced a more dangerous fate starting on the first day of his hospital stay. ?They inserted a catheter,? she says, ?and his health...
WILLIAM SHATNER has always given of himself to the people--but never something quite this close to his heart. The Boston Legal star sold his kidney stone for $25,000 to raise money for the charity Habitat for Humanity. Captain Kirk's renal calculus was snapped up by online casino Goldenpalace.com which added the specimen to its collection of oddities, including a partially eaten sandwich thought to contain the image of the Virgin Mary. "This is a bold new addition to our fleet," said the casino's CEO, evidently a longtime Trekkie. Shatner says his stone is no mere lump...