Word: livered
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...Queensland's Palm Island. On Nov. 19, 2004, Doomadgee was arrested for allegedly swearing at police officers. Some 40 minutes later, he lay dead in a cell with a black eye, bruising to his head, body and hands, four broken ribs, a ruptured portal vein and a split liver. The only suspect was Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley, whom Queensland's Deputy State Coroner found responsible for the death but who was acquitted of manslaughter at trial. Melbourne-based Hooper, 34, takes us through every stage in an observant, acute and compassionate narration...
...station at the time, Roy Bramwell, told investigators he'd later had a partial view of Hurley pummeling Doomadgee. In his summing up at the trial in Townsville, prosecutor Peter Davis scoffed at the idea that a man could land on another with sufficient force to "cleave his liver in two almost across his spine" and not have the faintest idea that he'd caused any damage...
...toilets will be flushed with rainwater, and even the booze is pretty green: organic, fair-trade alcohol will be served, along with bio-beer, whose makers claim that the aloe vera in it helps increase vitamin uptake as well as reduce the harmful effects of alcohol on the liver. Also, Surya is offering free admission to clubbers who can prove they traveled there by foot, bicycle or public transportation. Of course, given the price of gas these days, it seems unlikely that many clubgoers will be arriving any other...
...than it is to get young patients to eat better and exercise more. And then there's the possible cascade effect. "We can add statins to help overweight children," says Ludwig of Children's Hospital Boston. "But what about the next problem that comes up - insulin resistance and fatty liver. Are we going to keep adding drug after drug? That possibility just makes me want...
...most improve within a week. About 20% see no progress at all, but the company hasn't received reports of negative effects and it says it didn't see any in its earlier clinical trials. Vet-Stem is now testing stem cells to treat kidney disease in cats and liver disease in dogs...