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30 Mar 2010 23:01

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U.S.: Study: Kidney-selling shouldn’t be limited to the black market

  • 106k number of people currently on waiting lists for a new organ, mostly kidneys
  • 92% of people who die yearly waiting for organs they were waiting for others to donate
  • $$$ what could encourage more organ donations for people who need them source
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26 Jul 2009 11:49

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World: How much can you make from selling a black-market kidney, anyway?

  • $10,000 the amount poor foreigners can make by selling one of their kidneys in third-world countries such as India
  • $180,000 the amount rich sick people are willing to pay for those kidneys so that they don’t die source
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24 Jul 2009 21:44

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World: Cuba joins the Internet age with a black-market Craiglist wannabe

The name, Revolico, stands for “disarray,” a cheeky way to describe the country’s post-embargo economy. But the site is a shot in the arm for the black market. source
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23 Jul 2009 20:45

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U.S.: The best, most lurid details of the New Jersey corruption saga

  • rabbis A bunch of prominent Jewish rabbis – including the grand rabbi of the Syrian Jews – apparently had corrupt ties to banks in Switzerland and Israel. Oy ye vey!
  • cereal Talk about a secret prize. Investigators said they found $97,000 in a box of Apple Jacks cereal. It was just one example of the huge amount of cash bandied about.
  • organs One guy apparently convinced people to sell their kidney for $10,000, only to resell that same kidney for $16,000. And people said The Sopranos were fake! source
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