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...each year go smoothly, but the problems at CryoLife highlight concerns about quality control throughout the tissue-bank industry. (By contrast, storage problems are simpler when harvesting whole organs like hearts and livers, which have to be transplanted immediately.) "It's almost like anybody with a chainsaw and a pickup truck can go into the body-harvesting business," says Don Keenan, an Atlanta attorney representing 14 clients pursuing claims against CryoLife. One of them is the family of Brian Lykins, 23, who died three days after what should have been routine orthopedic knee surgery last November. His death was caused...
...nearly 3,000 white Zimbabweans, the day of eviction had finally arrived. Hundreds of farmers and their families jammed clothes and linens into boxes and lifted refrigerators onto pickup trucks. At a homestead on the outskirts of Harare, a farmer kneeling in the middle of her kitchen floor wrapped crockery and glasses less than 24 hours before the Aug. 8 deadline. "I can't cry anymore," said the woman, who, fearing for her safety, asked that her name not be published. "I just don't have any tears left." Most of the farmers, however, decided to defy the government deadline...
...growing ring of informants ("Money talks," says a Pakistani official with a grin), investigators have tracked communications between Karim and two suspects arrested on July 8 for attempting to kill Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in April. The two accused, Mohammed Imran and Mohammed Hanif, confessed they parked a pickup truck loaded with explosives along Musharraf's motorcade route through Karachi. The remote-control detonator failed. Eight weeks later the same explosive-rigged vehicle was used in the blast at the U.S. consulate...
...feet. Bigger nets can work on bigger targets. The Portable Vehicle Arresting Barrier, developed for the Pentagon by General Dynamics in Falls Church, Va., is a tough, elastic web that springs up from the ground in an instant to block a road. It can stop a 7,500-lb. pickup truck traveling 45 m.p.h. and then wrap around it to trap the occupants inside...
...prove he was right, Kok rented a warehouse in the gray industrial town of Eindhoven and set about making CDs without the customary multimillion-dollar expense for "clean rooms" to keep stray dust motes and hairs from marring the discs. In place of these rooms Kok built a pickup-truck-size "in line" machine that handled all the stages of production in one clean, compact, enclosed location--thus slicing the cost of producing a CD to 18[cents], from the standard...