Word: accidentally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crowe dismissed parallels between Sunday's accident and the Korean Air Lines disaster. The Iranian jetliner, he pointed out, had flown into a combat zone, unlike the KAL plane, which merely strayed into Soviet airspace. The admiral emphasized that the tragedy had to be viewed against the background of the...
Beset by high costs and poor patients, often ignored by paramedics and abandoned by doctors who fear malpractice suits, the nation's trauma centers -- specialized 24-hour emergency rooms -- have been especially hard hit. Last week the Journal of the American Medical Association published a survey of U.S. regional trauma...
Those odds also apply to affluent areas. In Northern California a bicyclist whose legs were severely damaged in an accident lay for several hours in a local emergency room waiting for special surgeons. The patient was eventually transferred to a trauma unit in San Francisco, where doctors had to amputate...
Who was Jessica Savitch? Millions of TV viewers knew her as the glamorous and authoritative NBC News anchor who was a role model for scores of aspiring women journalists. To her colleagues on the set, however, she was an anorexic, acne-scarred prima donna who would throw tantrums over the...
Most gardeners, at the outset, seem to think that their new passion is profoundly good for them and that the world would be not just a prettier but a healthier and better place if more people joined them in the out-of-doors. There is some theory to this: the...