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...description of the rape suspect given to police officers was a "black man in his early 20s," an extremely vague and definitely broad description. And once the bullet-riddled body of Diallo was examined, all that was found on him were a beeper and a wallet. Diallo had no history of a criminal record...
...hospital never goes to sleep: the robot in the pharmacy dispenses drugs 24 hours a day with nearly 100% accuracy; a chaplain dozes in the sleeping room, with a beeper; doctors work late into the night, and residents rotate overnight duty every three nights, crashing on couches in the lounge and grabbing snacks from vending machines after the cafeteria closes...
...pagers, the team was directed and its work edited by Barrett Seaman, our special-projects editor. Nancy Gibbs, the senior editor who conceived the project, staked out the infant intensive-care unit. Adam Cohen, a staff writer, checked out Duke's marketing strategy. Senior writer David Van Biema's beeper alerted him whenever a patient was feared to be dying. Deputy photo editor Rick Boeth marshaled the photographers chronicling the action. Veteran science correspondent Dick Thompson and senior reporter Alice Park "knew what the doctors were talking about, which made them translators for the rest of us," says Seaman...
...divinity grad student from Roxie, Miss., he has spent his first two weeks here on a ward that has thus far seen no deaths. But tonight, from 6 p.m. until 6 a.m., he is the on-call chaplain for the entire hospital. In his pocket is a sky-blue beeper that will sound the moment someone's vital signs fail. He wonders how he will respond. Last night's on-call was faced with the death of an eight-year-old boy mangled by dogs. "I don't know if I could have..." Baker begins and then trails...
...dreaming--the images look like TV cartoons--when the beeper goes off. It is 2:55 a.m. Marilyn Yopp, a police detectives' secretary in Jacksonville, N.C., suffers from thymoma, a rare cancer. She was admitted to the oncology floor recently with an even rarer symptom, a disfiguring full-body rash that, her sister Doris Del Castilho explains, "started as tiny flakes of skin and then got bigger and opened up like a flower." A few minutes ago, she asked Del Castilho to help her turn over in bed, when suddenly "her eyes rolled up. I heard them...