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...look like a kids' corner lemonade stand. Director Michael Bay's new movie posits a secretive biotech operation offering rich people the opportunity to have their very own, disease-free clones. In other words, for $5 million you can have a more or less living insurance policy. Need a kidney transplant? You got it, helicoptered right to the operating room...
...Kansas City, Mo.-born blues "shouter" of huge girth (300 lbs.) and voice, whose long career and 200 record albums reflected black music's migration into cities in the 1930s, its influence on jazz in the '40s and its transformation into rhythm and blues in the '50s; of kidney failure; in Inglewood, Calif. Several of his biggest hits, including Chains of Love (1951), Sweet Sixteen (1952) and, most memorably, Shake, Rattle and Roll (1954), later became rock-'n'-roll classics after being bowdlerized by such white artists as Bill Haley and Elvis Presley...
...years there have been whispers that President Ferdinand Marcos is suffering from a degenerative kidney disease that requires him to undergo regular dialysis. Although Marcos, 68, has put in some taxing days on the stump, his campaigning for the Feb. 7 election, in which he is being challenged by Corazon Aquino, 52, has revived the rumors about his health. He has canceled a number of public appearances, blaming "unpredictable weather." Then on Friday, before a speech in Pangasinan province, Marcos' left hand began to bleed, and he had to be treated onstage by a doctor and nurse. On Saturday...
...could itself make people sick, or even set off a pandemic. The problem is that the virus reference seed?the weakened bit of live H5N1 used to build up immunity in the human body?was mixed with cancer cells to help it replicate and then grown in a monkey kidney. That method is highly unorthodox. "People could get cancer from the vaccine," says Klaus Stohr, head of the WHO's global influenza program. Even more ominous, the developers say they've followed international procedures to ensure that the virus hasn't mutated in the making of the vaccine, but they...
DIED. BRIAN BLAINE REYNOLDS, 89, brash sports photographer of the '40s and '50s, and one of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's first hires, known until 1964 as HY PESKIN; of kidney disease; in Herzliyya, Israel. Darting into seemingly unreachable spots, he captured such indelible images as Ben Hogan, left, wielding a 1-iron at the approach to the 18th hole at the 1950 U.S. Open and Joe DiMaggio finishing his grand swing at the 1949 All-Star game...