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Outcry over TV kidney competition
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5-31-2007 9:03 AM
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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6699847.stm"><FONT size="2">Political parties have called for The Big Donor Show to be scrapped, but broadcaster BNN says it will highlight the country's shortage of organ donors. </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6699847.stm"><P> <FONT size="2">"It's a crazy idea," said Joop Atsma, of the ruling Christian Democrat Party. </FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6699847.stm"><FONT size="2">"It can't be possible that, in the Netherlands, people vote about who's getting a kidney," he told the BBC. </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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