His luck ran out, though, when he became obsessed with beating slot machines, and he wound up serving a yearlong sentence.

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One possible explanation, the researchers write, is that machines keeping the heart beating are being removed earlier, which would turn a potential brain death donation into a "less desirable" cardiac death donation.

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When the market sold off on street-beating earnings from Apple (AAPL), VMware (VMW) and International Business Machines (IBM), some investors grew weary of future tech earnings reports in stocks that had enjoyed strong runs into their reports.

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