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an ordeal that threatened to put him on a liver transplant list.
• He hadn't felt right in the weeks before leaving for Yellowstone on May 29 -- but his lack of appetite and disorientation didn't merit canceling the trip.
• "I thought, 'I'm getting something. I'm coming down with something' and I thought I'd just ride it out and live with it," he said.
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Judge rules in favor of dying Pa. girl seeking adult lung transplant; expert raises concerns

• PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A federal judge has temporarily allowed a dying 10-year-old girl to move up the adult waiting list for a lung transplant, though an expert has questioned the decision on medical and ethical grounds.
• "We are beyond thrilled," Janet Murnaghan, the girl's mother, told The Associated Press on Wednesday after U.S. District Judge Michael Baylson intervened in the case. "Obviously we still need a match."
• Baylson suspended an age factor in the nation's transplant rules for 10 days for Sarah Murnaghan, who has been at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for three months with end-stage cystic fibrosis.
• The judge's ruling lifting the age requirement applies only to Sarah, at least until a June 14 hearing on the request for a broader injunction.
• An expert questioned Baylson's decision, which came a day after Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius declined to become involved in the case, despite urgent pleas from several Pennsylvania congressmen.
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AP survey: Economists see no stock bubble even as Fed's low rates help boost share prices

• WASHINGTON (AP) -- A nervous debate is raging among investors and analysts: Has the Federal Reserve inflated a stock market bubble by driving interest rates to record lows?
• The answer, according to economists surveyed by The Associated Press: No.
• Three-quarters of the economists say stocks, which are at their lowest point in a month but are up 19 percent since November, aren't overvalued. Many point to strong corporate profits as justifying the surge in stock prices, which have more than doubled since bottoming in 2009.
• The economists expect many consumers to respond to their increased stock

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