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DAVID P. VERNON Tucson, Ariz...
George Gustav Heye was a whimsically self-indulgent New York City banker who plowed his millions into a massive collection of American Indian objects. He discovered his life's mission as a 23-year-old engineering graduate of Columbia University, working as a railroad-construction superintendent in Kingman, Ariz. It was 1897, a moment--after American soldiers had killed Sitting Bull, massacred hundreds at Wounded Knee and captured Geronimo--when the white conflict with Native Americans was at last almost entirely decided in the settlers' favor. Indians were beginning their final transition in the white imagination from serious competitors...
DIED. ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS, 78, Swiss-born psychiatrist whose incisive research in the 1960s demolished medical taboos against discussing death with the dying and helped establish hospice care in the U.S.; in Scottsdale, Ariz. (See Appreciation...
...year-old man's medical symptoms are described. The man, who had briefly passed out, is in severe pain from his kidney area and is getting oxygen. The doctor sits across the hall from the emergency room at the Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Ariz., but his patient is a little farther away: on an airplane 30,000 ft. over the Middle East. Yet within minutes, Baron has diagnosed a kidney stone, suggested preliminary treatment and arranged for medical personnel to meet the plane on arrival...
...nurse Joan Sullivan Garrett, MedAire has grown from a tiny one-woman shop into a $17 million-in-sales company that is now listed on the Australian Stock Exchange after buying a company in Perth that operates Western-style medical clinics in Asia. MedAire, which is based in Tempe, Ariz., made the acquisition in an effort to grab a bigger slice of the estimated $1 billion medical-assistance market for travelers, with Singapore-based International SOS gobbling up some 40% of the industry's revenues...