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There are a lot of things that make the life of a con artist a dubious career track - not the least being the risk that you'll get caught. No matter how grand your ill-gotten Bentley or your cooked-books villa, they have to be hard to enjoy when you know that at any moment the jig could be up. The hope - and the thrill - is in the fact that that's only one possibility. The other is that the scam is so good you'll never be nabbed...
Ploeg notes that these results should help doctors make the most of the kidneys that are currently available. Ploeg's study found that machine-preserved kidneys performed consistently better than cold-stored kidneys no matter who the donor. In other words, perfusion proved beneficial, even when the organ donor was older or had other issues that would make the tissue marginal for transplant. That's especially important, since in recent years, the quality of donated kidneys has declined, due in part to the typical donor's advanced age and increase in accumulated health problems and diseases. Given the dwindling...
...importance of preserving and reinventing them. The spirit that built Detroit is still alive, and those of us who live here are fully invested in the hard work of shedding decades of bad press and telling the real story of who we are, what we do and why we matter. Molly Shor, BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH...
...Mexican-born García, 63, is busy compiling the paperwork to obtain the citizenship she feels she has been unfairly denied all these years. García is already recognized as a Spanish citizen through marriage. But having her nationality acknowledged as her birthright is a matter of honor. "It's not redundant," she says. "I've always had an identity conflict, and now I have the chance to resolve...
...Where do you go in Detroit in case of a tornado? To Ford Field - they never get a touchdown there. Yeah, it's not really that funny, is it? When you can't win one single game in today's NFL, it doesn't really feel like a laughing matter...