Word: annelies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they were delivered, each infant--Kenneth Robert (a.k.a. Hercules), then Alexis May, Natalie Sue, Kelsey Ann, Brandon James, Nathan Roy and, finally, Joel Steven--was taken to an adjacent room, placed on a warmer bed and given a ventilator tube and an intravenous line; then each was moved to the intensive care unit at the Blank Hospital. All the babies were initially listed in serious condition, which is actually better than expected, considering they were 10 weeks premature. Joel was briefly downgraded to critical on Wednesday because of blood loss. But by evening he had rebounded...
Physician Mary Ann Peberdy of the Medical College of Virginia conducted a survey of 93 doctors' offices to determine how many of them had a heart defibrillator on hand. The answer turned out to be not many. Of the 51 offices that responded, only six had bothered to purchase the $3,500 piece of equipment, and only three had a nurse on staff trained in cardiac life support. By contrast, Las Vegas casinos--rarely regarded as oases of good health--are increasingly making it a point to have defibrillators and medical teams on-site at all times...
...Ann Clurman, a partner at Yankelovich's MONITOR generational study, compares the new trend to the rumble on the tracks before the train is seen. "It'll take years for the numbers to catch up, but attitudinally, this generation is marrying younger," she says. All this cuts against the image pinned on Gen Xers at the start of the decade. The idea was that they were aimless and depressed, but the reality seems to be that they are overprogrammed and extraordinarily stressed. They are the first generation to be scheduled from their earliest play dates; to view school, even grade...
Hooray for Hillary! We need more 50-year-old cover girls. NANCY KING REAME Ann Arbor, Mich...
...family-unfriendly environment that forces us to place limitations on our careers before we have even had a chance to start them. JACQUELINE KARAMANOS Ann Arbor, Mich...