WASHINGTON — Americans love their cars, and so apparently does Uncle Sam. He’s got 642,233 of them.
Operating those vehicles — maintenance, leases and fuel — cost taxpayers a whopping $3.4 billion last year, according to General Services Administration data obtained and analyzed by the Associated Press.
While Cabinet and other officials say they need the vehicles to do their jobs, watchdogs say mismanagement of the fleet is costing millions of dollars a year in wasteful spending.
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A German medical team has released pictures of what it called the world’s first successful double arm transplant on a man who lost both limbs in a farming accident.
The male patient, 54, was “doing well under the circumstances” after the 15-hour operation last month, said Dr Christoph Hoehnke, one of the lead surgeons at the Isar clinic in Munich.
Dr Hoehnke told reporters he was deeply moved as the wife of the amputee – his name is being withheld – went to his bedside after the operation and instinctively reached for his hands.
He said that she remarked: “They look just like they used to”.