Spain's fragility is one you know well: the leg bone of an economy in a recession estimated to last two years is connected to the knee bone of undercapitalised banks is connected to the thigh bone of regions with debts they can't repay is connected to the hip bone of a government which cannot borrow at affordable rates.
BBC: Spain moves nearer to full-scale rescue
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In Taiwan it runs hospitals, schools, a university, recycling centres and one of the world's largest bone-marrow banks.
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Someday he envisions cancer centers storing giant banks of premade T cells to match the patients' bone marrow and tumor types.