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...contracted it in her native country. Nearly 400 young people, or 30% of the school's students, have tested positive for the infection, and at least 12 have a variety of the TB bacterium that is resistant to standard antibiotic treatment. One student has lost part of her lung...
...done. My gut-feeling meter says, 'Wow, this is very troubling.' It's in the Ripley's 'Believe It or Not' category," says Arthur Caplan, who directs the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. "The heart is the most symbolic of organs. Had they moved a lung or a pancreas, it just wouldn't have the same emotional impact." But a child's heart? Surely no parent could bear such a burden. Unless, perhaps, as in the case of the Szubers, the only alternative was another death in the family...
Plutonium is generally more available than enriched uranium but harder to build a bomb with. Smuggling enough stolen plutonium is reasonably easy: the gray metal commonly comes in 2-lb. bars or gravel-like pellets. While it is highly toxic to breathe in -- one grain can cause lung cancer -- its radioactive alpha rays do not penetrate very far, so thick lead shields are not necessary. But airport metal detectors, which would register any sizable quantity, are to be avoided...
...Smokers who hope their gene will protect them should think again: the theory that lung cancer is triggered in part by bad genes has been deflated by a new study...
...year's best action sequence? Easy. It's Mr. Chu (Sihung Lung), a master chef, slicing, dicing, chopping, boiling, broiling, steaming the ingredients of the dinner he prepares every Sunday for his three not entirely grateful daughters. It's the culinary arts rendered as thrillingly as the martial arts, with a middle-age Taiwanese cook appearing as deft and graceful in his peaceful trade as Bruce Lee ever was in his more violent...