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...South Korea's free press.) Then there was the acclaimed Kim Dae Jung-Kim Jong Il summit in Pyongyang in June 2000?the supposedly historic "peace breakthrough" that later turned out to have been purchased furtively and illegally, with a price tag of at least $100 million, through the transfer of South Korean taxpayer money to the Dear Leader's bank accounts...
...parts for profit from some 500 cadavers in the UCLA cooler--Kim's possibly among them--to Nelson, who was arrested on suspicion of receiving stolen property. Nelson, who used a power saw to dismember the bodies, says he paid $700,000 for the parts and received fees to transfer them to research labs, including Mitek, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. Nelson says he believed that the transactions were legitimate; Reid hasn't commented. UCLA came under suspicion as well, condemned by the families of donors for lax oversight, at best, or knowing about a lucrative tissue bazaar and winking...
Even if they do, it will be a while before anyone benefits from this research. Scientists will have to figure out how to purify ovarian stem cells, then transfer them into depleted ovaries to see if they can restart egg production--first in mice, then, if possible, in humans. But if they can, Tilly envisions all sorts of benefits. You might extract the cells and freeze them, and if a woman got cancer, you could reintroduce them after chemotherapy shut down her ovaries. Or you might freeze some of the vigorous stem cells in a young woman so she would...
With double-digit increases in health-care costs, more companies are turning to consumer-directed health plans, which transfer control--and much of the responsibility for paying--to workers. Features include cost sharing with employees, high deductibles, reimbursement accounts, preventive medicine and health savings accounts, which, like individual retirement accounts, allow workers to sock away money tax free. --By Barbara Kiviat
Insurgent attacks on Westerners are not the only security risk. Iraqi businesses, which run entirely on cash, face old-fashioned armed robbery. Omar Tabrah, who with his brothers owns Baghdad's busiest money-transfer business, has lost about $850,000 to bandits in multiple holdups during the past six months. "That's a lot of money, but we'll make it up quickly," says Tabrah, 36. "We can close our company, and I can stay home with my wife and kids, but I won't do that...