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...overwhelming majority of the 650,000 soft-tissue transplants 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...
...dull blade. My own eyes have too much history in them, I often think. I was the little girl who worshipped her father, and the young woman who hurt him the way daughters do when their love is needy and true. Now I look at him in a soft, maternal way, which still feels odd to me, even after all these years. As if the laws of nature have been turned upside down. My mother's eyes are frequently such deep wells, I have to look away. A 50-year marriage is full of intimate memories that live...
...Night will not see thirty again, Yet soft her wing, Miranda; Pick up your glass and tell me, then - How old is Spring, Miranda...
...goes: You'll get angry at yourself/And think you can think of something else," she sings on her new album, Lost in Space. Her music is rock at its most comforting, with gently swinging rhythms and mournful guitar lines. Sometimes only a hint of distortion steers it clear of soft-rock territory. The words ultimately, however, are not soft but the tough caveats of an ex-romantic. Her message is one rarely heard in rock: Sometimes you just have to lower your expectations. Dear Aimee, How come there aren't more songwriters like you? Yours, Quite Impressed. --By Benjamin Nugent...
...minerals are said to ease arthritis and other ailments. On weekends, bathers pack the large hall to lounge and eat noodles. Despite the grungy surroundings, it's an authentic taste of true onsen, or hot spring, culture. Besides, you'll notice the waters really do leave your skin baby-soft...