Word: transferals
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...surgery, performed in Saudi Arabia, involved the transfer of a uterus from a 46-year-old donor who had undergone a hysterectomy into a 26-year-old woman whose uterus had been removed because of hemorrhaging. The organ survived for 99 days but failed after kinking or other blood-vessel problems choked off circulation. Many members of the medical community were nonetheless encouraged. Says New York University's Giuseppe Del Priore, who has performed the procedure on animals: "Now that we have the first, the second and third transplant should come soon...
...terrified, and with good reason, because his new partner is dead. What kind of magic is this? The jealous mistress is still alive, and doesn't at this stage even know of her new rival's existence. The young woman is killed, it seems, by a sort of telepathic transfer?by the guilt in Genji's dream. The sheer glamour of life in this world is constantly shadowed by forces that could take it all away?forces inside and outside the world...
...month you get 100 downloads, and the tunes don't expire as long as you remain a subscriber. You also get to burn 20 tracks onto a CD. Downloads are especially efficient: mere seconds on broadband and minutes via modem. This was refreshing after all the transfer errors I'm used to on Morpheus and its underground kin. Now all Pressplay needs is a catalog large enough that I might want 20 songs a month from...
...particular they suggested using a procedure called fractional transfer, which would eliminate the role of chance in how ballots are distributed...
Rather than pluck out selected ballots and counting them entirely, fractional transfer would take all extra ballots but weight them as if each one was just a fraction of a vote. For example, instead of counting every 4th ballot, all of the ballots would be counted with a weight of one-fourth...