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Only the upper eyelids, forehead, lower lip and jaw are hers. The rest of her face comes from a cadaver.

In a 22-hour operation, surgeons have given nearly an entire new face to a woman with such severe facial damage she could not eat on her own or breathe without a hole in her windpipe, transplant doctors at the Cleveland Clinic said here on Wednesday.

The highly experimental procedure, performed within the last two weeks, was the world’s fourth face transplant, the United States’ first, and the most extensive and complicated such operation to date. The surgeons, led by Dr. Maria Siemionow, took turns at the operating table so they could rest, sleep and share expertise.

The woman’s identity was not disclosed, nor was the cause of her injury. Doctors would say only that it was from trauma.

At a news conference, clinic doctors said she was expected eventually to be able to eat, speak and breathe normally. Feeling should return to her face in six months, and most facial functions in about a year.

Source: New York Times

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Experts say that as social mores ease, more young heterosexuals are engaging in anal sex, a behavior once rarely mentioned in polite circles. And the experimentation, they worry, may be linked to the current increase in sexually transmitted diseases.

Recently, researchers at the Bradley Hasbro Children’s Research Center in Rhode Island suggested that anal sex is on the rise among teens and young adults, particularly those who have unprotected vaginal sex.

Experts say girls and young women are often persuaded to try such sexual behavior for the wrong reasons — to please a partner, to have sex without the risk of pregnancy or to preserve their virginity. But many don’t understand the health consequences.

“I know some teens who did it just to try, and some who didn’t have a condom available,” said one 18-year-old Californian who did not want her name used.

“I think that it’s less taboo simply because people are more open to trying new things,” said her 23-year-old sister. “The younger crowd might be scared by the idea of getting pregnant, so they assume it’s safer.”

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British TV channel was scheduled to air a controversial documentary Wednesday night showing a terminally ill man committing assisted suicide.

The film follows retired university professor Craig Ewert during the last four days of his life in 2006, when he visited a Swiss clinic with his wife, Mary, in order to die.

The 59-year-old suffered from motor neurone disease (MND), which deprived him of the use of his arms and legs and caused him to be on a ventilator, Mary Ewert told The Independent.

MND destroys the body’s motor nerves, eventually resulting in paralysis. Most sufferers die within five years of diagnosis although scientist Stephen Hawking has survived with the disease for more than 40 years.

“Right to Die: The Suicide Tourist” shows Ewert lying in a rented Zurich apartment, where an employee of the clinic prepares a lethal dose of drugs for Ewert to drink. As the camera rolls, and with his wife by his side, Craig Ewert then closes his eyes and dies.

Mary Ewert said her husband wanted his death to be filmed in order to show that a terminal illness does not have to result in a painful death.

Source: CNN
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The Supreme Court has turned down an emergency appeal from a New Jersey man who says Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because he was a British subject at birth. The court did not comment on its order Monday rejecting the call by Leo Donofrio of East Brunswick, N.J., to intervene in the presidential election.

Donofrio says that since Obama had dual nationality at birth — his mother was American and his Kenyan father at the time was a British subject — he cannot possibly be a “natural born citizen,” one of the requirements the Constitution lists for eligibility to be president.

Donofrio also contends that two other candidates, Republican John McCain and Socialist Workers candidate Roger Calero, also are not natural-born citizens and thus ineligible to be president.

At least one other appeal over Obama’s citizenship remains at the court. Philip J. Berg of Lafayette Hill, Pa., argues that Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaiias Obama says and Hawaii officials have confirmed.

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A military jet crashed into a residential neighborhood in San Diego, California, on Monday as it tried to land at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, an FAA spokesman told CNN.

The pilot ejected before the jet, an F/A-18, went down two miles from the airfield about 11:55 a.m. PT, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said.

The pilot — the only occupant of the two-seat jet — was taken to a hospital after safely ejecting, the Marine Corps said in a news release.

Two homes were destroyed, and officials don’t know whether anyone was inside the structures during the crash, said Maurice Luque of the San Diego Fire Department, according to CNN affiliate KGTV.

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Stevens, 84, was convicted of all the felony charges he faced of lying about free home renovations and other gifts from a wealthy oil contractor. Jurors began deliberating last week.

Stevens faces up to five years in prison on each count when he is sentenced, but under federal guidelines he is likely to receive much less prison time, if any. The judge originally scheduled sentencing for Jan. 26 but then changed his mind and did not immediately set a date.

The monthlong trial revealed that employees for VECO Corp., an oil services company, transformed Stevens’ modest mountain cabin into a modern, two-story home with wraparound porches, a sauna and a wine cellar.

The Senate’s longest-serving Republican, Stevens said he had no idea he was getting freebies. He said he paid $160,000 for the project and believed that covered everything.

Source: Associated Press

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