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...kidney collapsed and he fell into a coma. A second transplant was ordered. "But the doctor had another plan," says Wiwijaya. "He wanted to give the best kidney to whomever paid the best price." Wiwijaya says his brother was given a lesser match. He died in January, a skeleton on a dialysis machine. "The doctor took his life," Wiwijaya says. "Everybody in that hospital wants a fee for everything they do. They're like vampires...
...House seems to be all thumbs when it comes to the environment. Environmental groups see the White House's latest move as a further indication that the administration disdains their concerns. By "gutting" the Clinton rule, as one member of Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund put it, but maintaining a skeleton, the administration can claim it is holding firm on protections even as it offers concessions to industry. "This is clearly an effort to split the difference," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Carney. "Bush has taken a lot of flak for his decisions on arsenic and Kyoto, for example...
Serbanescu said that her writing process contributed to the unattributed quotes. She said that she begins writing by finding sources on the Internet, and then constructing a "skeleton" of the article she intends to write from those Internet sources...
...Darwinism is back, social and otherwise, and that is the solid skeleton of this show. But the sight of Jerri and Alicia, the two women scorned, sitting on that growing jury was a pungent reminder that the entertainment value of "Survivor" does not lie with the ability of a handful of hungry people to get along while they starve. Jerri is missed. (And I'm not alone - 6 percent of respondents to a USA poll picked Jerri to go again, suggesting that people much prefer to vote her off than actually see her go.) With Colby seemingly in charge...
...habitat of rival species, most of which were evolutionary dead ends. But what about before that? Paleontologists have generally agreed that there was just one hominid line, beginning with a small, upright-walking species known as Australopithecus afarensis, most famously represented by "Lucy," a remarkably complete (about 40%) skeleton found in Ethiopia...