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...Jennifer Daly People who should definitely get vaccinated are those with asthma, heart disease, kidney disease or any other long-term health problem. Anyone with an immune defect, cancer, transplant, or HIV/AIDS should also get a shot. As should women who are pregnant and will be in their second or third trimester during flu season (winter), health care workers and essential community workers. We also suggest that people in dorms or other crowded living conditions go ahead and get the vaccine...
...Osama Bin Laden may be in less danger from smart bombs than from kidney stones, according to a report in the French daily Le Figaro. In a report picked up throughout Europe the Paris paper and Radio France International claimed the Saudi terrorist checked himself into Dubai's American Hospital in July, where he spent 10 days undergoing urgent treatment to his ailing renal system. "Intelligence sources believe that bin Laden bought a dialysis machine earlier this year which he had shipped to Kandahar," says the Times about the Le Figaro report. "His problem now will be operating such equipment...
...funneling more than $850 million to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks. Two months ago, Walter Gombe, 37, lost his job as a data-control officer. Despite five back operations since the bombing, the lower part of his body is still numb, and he needs a costly kidney operation. "When the drugs run out," he asks, "what do I do?" Some 3,000 of his countrymen with similar sentiments have sued the U.S. government, for $250,000 to $1.5 million each, claiming that the State Department negligently ignored warnings about the embassy assaults and failed to protect its buildings...
...each was mutilated (organs removed) in such a way that demonstrated an intimate knowledge of human physiology, suggesting that Jack was a very well educated man—likely, one of the British upper class. The Ripper worked methodically and ruthlessly, taunting authorities with letters and sending half a kidney to Scotland Yard over the four-month period. Unlike the psychological profiling so common in today’s police forces, the Brits were entirely unprepared to deal with a rash of violence so brutal and monumentally evil. After the murder of Mary Kelly, the killings stopped, but no suspect...
This is my own concoction that looks kind of funny but someone just recently asked me for the recipe. Take yogurt, add garbanzo and kidney beans, Italian dressing, curry powder, salt free 17, and pick a couple other spices for variety—you get a high protein, good-tasting snack...