WorldPingRay Vetuskey, 64, is marking the 100th birthday of the kidney his mother donated to him when he was 16.
The transplant, performed in 1978, has survived far beyond the typical 15–20 years.
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Man marks 100th birthday of kidney donated by mom 48 years ago
On the run for 20 years, Ugandan warlord Kony still 'active' within the Lord's Resistance Army
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WorldPingIn recent months, the eastern Central African Republic has been hit by several attacks attributed to the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan militia infamous for its massacres and mass abductions of children in the 1990s and 2000s.
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WorldPingDavid Rivera of Miami has been jailed since his conviction in May for conspiracy to commit money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent for the government of Nicolás Maduro.
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Rob Thomas and Paul Doucette talk band tensions, solo careers, Kyle Cook’s exit, and finding their way back to good…
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WorldPingWhile scientists are known for their dedication to their research, crawling on the floor to avoid electrocution for the sake of a measurement seems a little excessive. But this is what British physicist John Cockcroft and Irish physicist Ernest T.S.
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WorldPingAfter using a technique called molecular clock analysis, researchers have proposed that the origin of animals could be 200 million years earlier than thought.
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