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Organ transplant patients switch seats on the Titanic
December 10, 2010 Weird News: Bad lung beats none at all Britain’s National Health Service acknowledged in November that, because of a shortage of healthy lungs and other organs available for transplant, it was offering those on waiting lists the option of receiving them from former...- cybercore
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Tory MP 'sorry for foolish remarks'
A tory MP who described some of his constituents as "primitive people holding up their trousers with bits of twine" admitted his remarks had been "extremely foolish". Rory Stewart, who represents Penrith and the Borders, also made a joke about local people failing to get medical help for a...- whoosh
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Heat Wave Along East Coast Claims One Life
July 6) -- A heat wave along America's East Coast has left one person dead and sent temperatures soaring into the triple digits, creating dangerous conditions from North Carolina to Boston. A 92-year-old Philadelphia woman has died because of excessive heat exposure, a medical examiner told...- whoosh
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