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...Dodgy doctors exploit those same factors - illiteracy and poverty - to buy cheap organs on the black markets. There are millions of poor young men in India, desperate for a job and only too ready to travel to India's big cities at the promise of a quick buck. And even if they're not willing, they're still potential fodder. The Associated Press reported that while some donors sold their kidneys willingly, some were forcibly brought to clinics, held at gunpoint and then forced to undergo operations that they didn't want. "India is not such a literate population," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's Black Market Organ Scandal | 2/1/2008 | See Source »

...weird weather hit at a particularly bad time. Every year, in what is often called the world's largest annual migration, an estimated 180 million mainlanders go on holiday or travel home to be with their families to celebrate the Spring Festival, also known as Chinese New Year. Millions of these travelers are migrant workers - the real dynamo driving China's economic boom - who leave behind their jobs in factories and construction sites across the country for one of the few vacations many are allowed to take. But this year is different. Bad weather is making travel impossible; millions have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China On Ice | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

...works in Singapore, collaborating with Lucas' iconic special-effects shop Industrial Light & Magic to add computer-generated imagery to films including the Harry Potter and Indiana Jones series. "They were willing to take a chance even though I didn't have conventional experience," Dunsmoor says. "I was willing to travel far from home for that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fantasy League | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

Harvard will enter The Palestra at Penn tonight seeking its first victory there since 1991 and will travel to Princeton’s Jadwin Gymnasium tomorrow night with an even longer losing streak, dating back to 1989. The last time the Crimson swept the trip...

Author: By Kevin C. Reyes, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Killer P’s Up Next for Harvard | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

...Fridays, the class will apply the week’s discussion on the specific metabolic pathway to real-life, bringing in a patient who is suffering from a disease related to that metabolic pathway. According to Michel, because of patient confidentiality issues, undergrads will have to travel to HMS for the Friday lectures...

Author: By Prateek Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Larry and 'Lolita': The Crimson's Guide to Shopping Period | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

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