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...same blood type as the recipient. It takes an average of three months for hospitals to assess and approve a transplant. Kidney donation is a major commitment - you can't drive or lift anything for six weeks, and it can be over a month before you're ready to return to work. (See pictures of crime in Middle America...
...bills through full-time journalism could find different paymasters. The Associated Press recently started taking investigative reports from four nonprofit journalism groups. And if newspapers can't afford investigations, advocacy groups and think tanks - which already hire research pros - could do their own: a kind of piecemeal return to the old partisan press...
...Musharraf. (Zardari was forced to back down in the face of a crisis generated by nationwide protests led by lawyers.) "This judicial activism goes against our message of national reconciliation." During the 1990s, deposed civilian governments routinely found themselves dragged into court. "We don't want to a return to the politics of vengeance," says the Zardari aide...
Azeem also foresees personal trouble for Zardari if Chaudhry moves to revive corruption charges dropped by Musharraf as part of a presidential amnesty linked to a political deal that cleared the way for Zardari and his slain widow, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to return to Pakistan. The couple always denied the charges, maintaining that the cases against them were politically motivated...
...troops there this year, bringing the total to 68,000 by 2010. His commanders recently ordered 4,000 Marines into Helmand province to begin the long process of "clear, hold and build" - driving the Taliban out of its strongholds, staying there to make sure the insurgents don't return and rebuilding civil institutions crushed by 30 years of war. (Read "A New General, and a New War, in Afghanistan...