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...bullying throughout his life for his gender transgressions. Born female he began, at a young age, to identify and live as a man. When an adult he moved to the small Nebraska town of Falls City, hoping to live peacefully as a man and, perhaps at some point, to undergo sex change surgery. Teena dated women and befriended guys successfully, until a couple of his friends discovered his secret. Aghast at the affront to their masculine sensitivities and their hitherto manly friendship, two of Teena’s friends beat and raped him. A week after he reported...
There are other problems as well. Tommy John ligament surgery, an elbow procedure named after the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher who was the first to undergo it, used to be limited to players in their 20s and older, but it is now performed on kids as young as 12--not surprising if they started pitching excessively at age 8 or 9. Similarly, stress fractures in the backs of middle-school football and soccer players have nearly doubled over the past decade as a result of overtraining...
...Dominguez both said Wednesday that the University would honor all existing contracts involving HMI, including its agreement regarding the flagship Dubai Healthcare City, a major health-care complex in the Middle East. The partnership with the government of Dubai employs over 400 health-care professionals and is set to undergo further expansion, according to HMI’s 2007 annual report. HMI officials contacted last week expressed enthusiasm for the deal, saying the organization’s health care consulting functions were better suited to Partners’ focus. “A lot of our work...
Vice Provost for International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez and Jeon both said Wednesday that the University would honor all existing contracts involving HMI, including the flagship Dubai Healthcare City. The partnership with the government of Dubai employs over 400 health care professionals and is now set to undergo further expansion, according to HMI’s 2007 annual report...
...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 a spokeswoman from the National Human Rights Commission. "That's the main thing. There are a lot of people who are easy to take advantage...