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    LIVING LIVER DONOR
    November 27, 1989 - University of Chicago, U.S.A.

    Dr. Christoph Broelsch's team of doctors at the University of Chicago Hospitals implanted part of a woman's liver in her 21-month-old daughter in the world's first successful living donor liver transplant. Alyssa Smith from Schertz, Texas, received a portion of her mother Teri's liver. Dr Broelsch performed the first liver transplant using a segment of a cadaver liver while at the University of Hannover in 1984. At the University of Chicago, he performed the first segmental transplant in the United States (1985), the first split-liver transplant (one donor, two recipients) in the U.S. (1988) and developed the technique for transplantation from a living donor.

    ALGERIA SOUHANE MASSACRE
    November 27, 1997 - Algeria

    The second of three massacres by Armed Islamic Group (GIA ) on the small mountain town of Souhane leaves a further 18 men, 3 women an 4 children dead. The town with just 4,000 inhabitants was attacked in an even worse massacre in August where 64 were killed. The GIA conducted a violent campaign of civilian massacres, sometimes wiping out entire villages in its area of operation in an attempt to overthrow the Algerian government and replace it with an Islamic state. During it's reign of terror the GIA is believed to have been responsible for the murder of between 2,000 and 5,000 innocent civilians.

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Straight hair is trendy and stylish and that is why hair straighteners are so popular with the people all over the world, which helps the user to achieve the same.

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The art of hair straightening is not new but it has been around for a long time. It seems to us that whether we are a curly haired woman longing for sleek, straight locks, or a straight-haired girl wanting to go even straighter, we are never satisfy with the hair we have. Such dissatisfaction has led to so many innovations and inventions. Looking few years back we find that our mothers and grandmothers used to employ to such tricks as ironing their hair straight. In that case, we are lucky enough to have a number of modern means like Electric Curling Irons, Electric Pressing Irons, Thermal Curling Irons, Electric Flat Irons, Electric Straightner Irons, Electric Crimpers, Flat Irons, Thermal Stoves, and more at our disposal to allow us to switch straight and curly as we wish in this twenty-first century.

If you have naturally, straight hair you might be thinking of not investing your money on a hair straightener as it is of no use for your hair as it might be useful for those having curly or frizzy hairs. But that is not the right decision because there is just something about shiny, straight hair that makes most of us long to try it at some point or other and that can be achieve very easily with a hair straightener. It is also wrong to conclude that curly hairstyle is out of market but you should know that while hair with curls can look romantic and sexy, straight hair radiates an air of style and classiness. Both the hair style holds their own importance.

Very few people in the world have hair as truly straight as the styles we see on TV or in magazines and most of us have just wavy hair that prevents the hair from lying completely flat. Therefore, to get pin straight hair that will lie flat we turn to hair straightening techniques that is indeed very effective. If you want to straighten your hair at home, a good pair of hair straightener will be a wise choice that will save your money and time that you would have spent otherwise on your hairdresser. You need to simply heat them up, apply them on your hair, and enjoy the pin straight hair that you wished for long time.

Few hair straighteners on the market are graded best considering the overall functionality and safety. They do not overheat as the other hair straighteners and are safer for your hair.Since heat is considered bad for your hair and just as too much blow-drying leaves your hair dull and brittle the same holds true for too much straightening. But if you use ceramic straightener such GHD then there is nothing to panic. If you are using hair straightener on the daily basis then you should step up the hair care regime a notch at the same time. Invest in a good quality conditioner or follow hot oil treatment a couple of times per week to ensure that your hair is as shiny and healthy as it is straight.

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