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Tesco Appoints McIlwee as Finance Head, Ending Search (Update1) (Bloomberg)

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:30:41 -0800
McIlwee, 46, joined the company as U.K. finance director in December 2000 and became distribution director in January 2005, Cheshunt, England-based Tesco said today in a statement.

Pets of the Week (Texarkana Gazette)

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:00:24 -0800
The pets of the week are Oak, a 10-month-old male Rhodesian Ridgeback/pit bull terrier mix in cage D9, and a declawed calico female cat in cage C27. The Animal Care and Adoption Center of Texarkana, Ark., has 52 dogs, 10 puppies, 48 cats and five kittens for adoption, said a shelter official.

Devastating Critique of "Heart Death" Organ Donation Protocols

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:54:19 -0800
The attempt to increase the organ donation pool has led to an increased use in "heart death" procurement protocols, known as "non heart-beating cadaver donors." Under what has been called the Pittsburgh Protocol, obtaining organs via this method involves, 1) Planned removal of ICU-type life support; 2) Waiting for full cardiac arrest; 3) A time interval, generally 2-5 minutes. 4) Declaration of Death; and, 5) Organ procurement from the cadaver. Death is declared on the basis that there has been