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To: foundation who wrote (5839)	2/28/2003 10:40:32 AM
From: foundation	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12247

First face transplant planned... By Hugh Dougherty, Evening Standard 28 February 2003 The first person ever to receive a face transplant is likely to be a 16-year-old Irish girl who suffered horrific injuries as a baby when her father's car exploded into flames. Lena Marie Murphy will have the surgery at the Royal Free Hospital in north London within months in an operation which will make medical history. Once a board of ethics, headed by Falklands War veteran Simon Weston has given the go-ahead, Lena will receive the face of a dead donor, removing her own severely burned face. The operation is likely to take place after the teenager has sat the Irish equivalent of her GCSE exams, and will end a race between British and American surgeons to be the first to perform the transplant, which was once the stuff of science fiction. The surgery involves "degloving" the donor's face from a four-hour-old corpse, severing the top layer of skin and then grafting it onto the recipient's face. It will be carried out by Peter Butler, a surgeon at the Royal Free, who has yet to meet Lena. He said she will undergo psychiatric and psychological assessment. thisislondon.com Standard

To: foundation who wrote (5839)	2/28/2003 8:26:36 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12247

Haha!! GG also suggested reduced CDMA royalties to get CDMA going really fast. The European spectrum auctions showed what a silly idea that was. There hasn't been any CDMA going in Europe and it's nothing to do with the royalty rate. Elsewhere, there's plenty of CDMA and it's gaining ground quickly. Cutting royalty rates from 5% to 2% won't make a difference. That'll just hand profits to subscribers in the way of consumer surplus, or to spectrum owners who will be able to charge a little more. QUALCOMM should increase royalty rates, not decrease them. The GSM Guild think they can get W-CDMA going with royalties of 10% at least, probably more since Nokia seems unable to get traction with their 5% idea [to be shared among non-QUALCOMM intellectual property owners]. Mqurice