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...risk of entrapment or suffocation. This is the first study to quantify the number of fatalities resulting from infants' sleeping with adults. The American Medical Association agrees that this is vital safety information that parents can use in making decisions on how best to keep their infants safe. ANN BROWN, CHAIRMAN U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Washington...
Experts strongly recommend, too, that managers communicate effectively with nightworkers. At the UCLA Medical Center, an e-mail system was recently installed to improve communications, but Lea Ann Cook, a director at the transplant/surgical specialties intensive-care units, noticed that nurses were still frustrated at having limited access to classes and training and "still don't feel in the loop, because [e-mail] can't replace human contact." At firms such as Schwab, management works hard at dealing with night employees just as they would dayworkers...
Even more than aiming to attract talent, executives say they're focused on the bottom line. "Our investment is in keeping health-care costs down," says D'Ann Whitehead, preventive-health-services manager at Chevron. A study by the MEDSTAT Group consulting firm found that over the past eight years, Chevron had held medical expenses flat and slashed worker sick days by using everything from massage to smoking restrictions...
...shops: seedy, if not downright sinister; XXX signs plastered on blacked-out windows in shady neighborhoods; frequented mainly by men. When it comes to the flesh industry, Europe, for all its sophistication, wasn't much different from the U.S. Then along came Ann Summers, a British chain of sex emporiums, and things began to change. The 23 Ann Summers stores scattered across Britain are on main shopping streets and geared specifically to women. Brightly lighted and decorated in pastels, the shops manage to make the selling of erotic lingerie and sex aids seem more naughty than nasty...
...frontiers of scientific and intellectual inquiry, it is the mission of the List Visual Arts Center to explore the most contemporary art making in all media," or so say their brochures. Despite the silly analogy, the List Center is impressively cutting-edge, showing artists like Kiki Smith, Ann Hamilton and Matthew Barney. The new director, Jane Farver, was selected as one of the six curators for the next Whitney Biennial: the exhibition program here has credibility to spare...