Study calls for new international convention against trafficking in kidneys, other organsUNITED NATIONS — A new international convention is needed to prevent trafficking in kidneys and other organs and potentially life-saving tissues and cells, according to a joint study by the United Nations and the Council of Europe released Tuesday. 16 Arizona corrections workers disciplined after inmate died in triple-digit heatPHOENIX — Sixteen Arizona corrections employees have been fired, suspended or otherwise disciplined for their roles in the death of an inmate left in an outdoor holding cell for four hours in triple-digit heat and for a “wait-them-out” practice at the prison where she died. 5 scientists honored for life-saving leukemia treatment, research in creating stem cellsNEW YORK — Five scientists have won prestigious research awards for developing a life-saving leukemia treatment and for advances in “reprogramming” DNA, which led to a new kind of stem cell. Inmate’s heat-related death in Arizona leads to a ban on the use of outdoor holding cellsPHOENIX — A prostitute doing time behind bars, Marcia Powell was temporarily moved one day last month to an outdoor holding pen with nothing but a chain-link-fence roof to shield her from the searing desert sun. Arizona ends use of outdoor prison cells after female inmate died in triple-digit heatPHOENIX — Arizona is ending its use of outdoor prison cells after an inmate died in triple-digit heat last month, the corrections department said Tuesday. PROMISES, PROMISES: A checklist of Obama’s promises shows the big ones are still to comeWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has not yet achieved the big campaign promises he’ll be judged on years from now, on health care, war, the economy and so much more. It’s early, it’s a colossal load and Rome wasn’t built in 100 days. |
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