Amazing story and, to me, oddly moving.
Transplanted cornea still sees after 123 years
But 'my vision's not great,' says 80-year-old man who received eye in 1958
OSLO - Bernt Aune’s transplanted cornea has been in use for a record 123 years — since before the Eiffel Tower was built.
“This is the oldest eye in Norway — I don’t know if it’s the oldest in the world,” Aune, an 80-year-old Norwegian and former ambulance driver, told Reuters by telephone on Thursday. “But my vision’s not great any longer.”
He had a cornea transplanted into his right eye in 1958 from the body of an elderly man who was born in June 1885. The operation was carried out at Namsos Hospital, mid-Norway.
Story here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27339516/from/ET/
3 comments:
Sice it seems you're ignorant in that you won't respond to my comments. I will post this for you.
The case for McCain is straightforward. The financial crisis has made us forget, or just blindly deny, how dangerous the world out there is. We have a generations-long struggle with Islamic jihadism. An apocalyptic soon-to-be-nuclear Iran. A nuclear-armed Pakistan in danger of fragmentation. A rising Russia pushing the limits of revanchism. Plus the sure-to-come Falklands-like surprise popping out of nowhere.
Who do you want answering that phone at 3 a.m.? A man who’s been cramming on these issues for the past year, who’s never had to make an executive decision affecting so much as a city, let alone the world? A foreign policy novice instinctively inclined to the flabbiest, most vaporous multilateralism (e.g., the Berlin Wall came down because of “a world that stands as one”), and who refers to the most deliberate act of war since Pearl Harbor as “the tragedy of 9/11,” a term more appropriate for a bus accident?
Or do you want a man who is the most prepared, most knowledgeable, most serious foreign policy thinker in the United States Senate? A man who not only has the best instincts but has the honor and the courage to, yes, put country first, as when he carried the lonely fight for the surge that turned Iraq from catastrophic defeat into achievable strategic victory?
There’s just no comparison. Obama’s own running mate warned this week that Obama’s youth and inexperience will invite a crisis — indeed a crisis “generated” precisely to test him. Can you be serious about national security and vote on Nov. 4 to invite that test?
Anon,
Huh? In fact I have a lot of respect for McCain -- he would make a fine President but I doubt he will ever be one.
james
I'm talking about the post I wrote about the guy in Toronto who was let out on bail to go commit 2 murders.
Morton, why is a serial rapist being released on bail after 15 months of custody?
Do you think we should have a PUBLIC INQUIRY?
Are those 2 women worth anything to a liberal?
Should we fire the judge for such gross negligence?
Let me know.
P.S.(When you ignore someone and won't comment on a comment, it shows you might not have an answer).
You're a lawyer so let's debate this issue.
Again, should there be a FULL PUBLIC INQUIRY as to why this judge released a rapist to go and kill 2 elder women?
What say you?
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