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...White House during his U.S. visit, a woman from a newspaper run by the meditation sect Falun Gong loudly interrupted him, calling him a "murderer" and threatening that his days were numbered. Among other allegations, Falun Gong, which is banned in China, accuses Chinese hospitals of harvesting organs from executed prisoners - including some of the sect's own members - and selling them for transplants. But Falun Gong activists aren't the only ones concerned about China's organ trade. A day before Hu's interrupted White House speech, the British Transplantation Society, a group of 800 surgeons, issued a statement...
...works well. The record-opener “Girl in the War” puts the mandolin to such use, while catchy “Wolves” follows up with guitar and piano, and “Monster Ballads” borrows a gospel feel with tasteful organ use. Ritter even allows the lyrics of “Idaho” to exist almost without accompaniment; he sings the soulful melody with just a hint of acoustic guitar. Instead of forcing complicated riffs into the same airspace, Ritter opts to feature the distinctive sound of one or two instruments...
...breakthrough in a field beset with hardship and controversy. According to a report released by the British journal The Lancet, scientists from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School used cell samples of a patient’s bladder to re-grow the full-sized organ before surgically inserting it above the old one. “This is one small step in our ability to go forward in replacing damaged tissues and organs,” said Anthony Atala, director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at WFUSM and lead researcher, in a press release. While...
...3121” are those where the Prince lets the NPG cut loose with some old school funk workouts. The album’s lead single, “Fury,” is vintage purple-funk: Prince’s wailing guitar takes center stage, a gospel organ provides counterpoint to the melody, and a flesh and blood drummer keeps sick time in the background.“Get On the Boat”, the album’s closer, does “Fury” one better in the funk department. Prince channels the spirit of James...
...role is an important one as a Kazan movie is inevitably seen in light of his decision to name names to the House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC), the organ for official McCarthyism, particularly as Budd Schulberg, Kazan’s screenwriter on this picture and “On the Waterfront” also acted as a “friendly witness” against alleged Communists. The Matthau character shows the self-hatred at an inability to create a viable third...