Word: livered
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...offset by the drop in prices of goods that people don't buy every day, such as TVs, refrigerators, clothes or cars. Since inflation rates are averages, compiled from thousands of prices, the overall level barely moved. The questioning of official inflation statistics is "an issue that makes my liver scream," says Enrico Giovannini, an Italian who works as chief statistician for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, though he concedes that the introduction of the euro brought with it some "terrible problems of perception." (Researchers are busy trying to figure out why - see sidebar.) Economists fear...
Presented that way, taking statins sounds like less of a no-brainer--especially given that the drugs cost hundreds of dollars a year, side effects could include liver and muscle damage and you have to take twice-yearly blood tests just in case. Still, factored out over the entire U.S. population, even a 1-in-50 figure means many thousands of heart attacks are avoided every year...
...MIT’s Provost from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day, and will swear off food until he resigns. According to The Boston Globe, about 30 supporters joined his protest yesterday.Sherley has undergone extensive preparations for his strike. He said he has undergone tests for kidney, liver, and heart function, and has read up on the effects of starvation so he knows what to expect. A certified M.D., he will check his own blood pressure daily. An MIT medical team will be on call, he said. Sherley said he has had to resort to such desperate measures because...
...People’s Republic of China. It is, of course, the country’s National Day. It is also, the BBC reports, the peak of organ season in China’s rapidly growing organ transplant centers (frequented by many a rich Westerner in need of a liver or two). The reason for this October surge in organ supply is simple, the BBC reports: Prisoner executions in China always go up before the national holiday...
...learned of this fall prisoner organ harvest through hidden camera footage taken by BBC correspondent Rupert Wingfield Hayes. In the video, Hayes strolls into one of the largest organ transplant centers in Northern China in order to procure a liver for his “ailing father.” Not particularly in the mood for subterfuge, Hayes asks the doctors if they received the organs from executed prisoners. The hospital officials cheerfully proclaim, “The prisoners on death row have done many bad things. Before they die they give their organs as a present to society...