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Gilroy - For the first time since 1992, the winners of this year's garlic festival poster contest are all locals, with 2001-contest winner and photographer Kris Knutson taking home the top prize. The Gilroy Garlic Festival Association announced Tuesday that Knutson's poster - featuring a photograph of a fork holding up a garlic bulb, full of rich detail and cast in a soft light with just a hint of color visible - would be the face of this year's festival. It will appear on T-shirts, mugs, aprons, flyers, advertisements and other festival-related merchandise. The decision to choose 52-year-old Knutson's work was not difficult, said Karen Scorsur, chairwoman of the retail committee of the festival and a nurse at the surgery department of Saint Louise Regional Hospital. "Oh my gosh - this is just so obvious," she said of her reaction at seeing the submitted posters.
Study: One donor cornea may treat 3 people
NEW DELHI, April 10 (UPI) -- An Indian medical school study has determined one donor cornea can be divided and transplanted into multiple patients with eye disease or eye damage. Recent advances have allowed ophthalmologic surgeons to move from transplanting the entire cornea in every patient to more focused operations that involve removing and replacing only the diseased or damaged portion of the cornea. Such surgical techniques provide an opportunity to make use of a single donor cornea in more than one patient. In the study, Rasik Vajpayee -- then of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and now at the University of Melbourne -- used a cornea from a man who died of cardiac arrest for transplants in three patients. The corneal tissue was divided into three parts, each part was then transplanted into different patients.
Chinese magnates just as philanthropic as Buffet or Gates: Report
Beijing, Apr 12: Microsoft chief Bill Gates and US' stock investor Warren Buffet might have earned a name for their handsome donations announced year after year for noble causes, but a new survey report released in China reveals that Chinese entrepreneurs are not far behind in opening their wallets when it comes to donations. .
7 Great Careers for 2007
If someone asked me which careers were best, I wouldn't cop out and simply say, "It's a matter of what fits you." But here are seven careers that I believe, for many college-educated people, provide an ideal combination of money, status, sense of fulfillment and good quality of life, and have good job market prospects for the foreseeable future. Orthodontist. It's one of the few medical specialties in which self-employment remains a possibility, and the average self-employed orthodontist earns more than $200,000 a year. Also, you develop a long-term relationship with most of your patients. And, at the end of treatment, you've succeeded with nearly all -- they walk out with a better smile. For more information, see the American Association of Orthodontists' Web site or William Proffit's book, Contemporary Orthodontics, fourth edition.
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