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...farm out high-cost specialties like organ transplants to secondary insurers who "carve out" coverage of these procedures and do separate deals with hospitals. In this case, PHP sold its liver business to Minnesota's Minneapolis-based United Resources Network, a subsidiary of the giant United HealthCare Services, Inc. Unbeknown to O'Connor, only days before, URN had cut a deal with...
...sunny day in February. Two Chinese nationals are concluding a business deal in rapid-fire Mandarin. But this is no ordinary transaction. The men are discussing a straightforward proposition to sell the kidneys, corneas, livers and lungs of executed Chinese prisoners for tens of thousands of dollars. Unbeknown to one of the would-be organ brokers, however, his U.S.-based contact is Harry Wu, the human-rights activist who spent 19 years in Chinese jails and who has just secretly captured their entire exchange on videotape...
...relationship was private until another officer under investigation for misconduct pointed the finger at Zigo and Flinn. The two agreed to deny their affair, and she signed a statement in November saying the relationship was platonic. But Zigo, unbeknown to Flinn, blurted out everything to investigators, who probed for details about their foreplay, birth control and where they had sex. The official report is so graphic it is stamped WARNING: THIS REPORT CONTAINS EXPLICIT MATERIAL. In mid-December, the Air Force gave Flinn a written order not to come within 100 ft. of Zigo, but she was already living with...
...example of ghostware haunts America's 3.1 million alphanumeric pagers (a.k.a. alphas), those sleek '90s icons that deliver, along with the usual phone numbers, written messages such as "Running late" or "Where's my heroin?" Almost all today's alphas, unbeknown to their owners, can also receive E-mail. That means Mom can beckon you home by sending a message over CompuServe or your husband can slip an electronic grocery list across the Internet and onto your hip. (If you have a pager, one phone call to your service provider should be enough to turn on the mail...
...story "about a man who declined a drink because he had taken a total-abstinence pledge and asked for lemonade instead. When a friend suggested that it would taste better with a little brandy in it, the man said he would not object if it could be added 'unbeknown...