Japanese gangster offered $1 million for visa that would allow liver transplant at UCLA: Desperate for a liver transplant at UCLA Medical Center, the leader of Japan’s third-largest organized crime group offered as much as $1 million to potential intermediaries to help him obtain a U.S. visa, according to several people who said they were solicited for assistance. [LA Times]
The last survivor: But for a handful of Americans post-polio syndrome was literally all-encompassing. They had the worst kind, bulbo-spinal, which destroyed the nerves which controlled their breathing. An iron lung had to breathe for them and they ended up spending whole lives inside a gigantic mechanical jelly roll. Dianne Odell was the last of them. [Mercator]
Novelist begins hunger strike over Bhopal: Indra Sinha, author of Animal’s People, has begun a hunger strike in New Delhi to protest the neglect of Bhopal disaster survivors. [Guardian]
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