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...Tobago, Sardinia and Pago Pago. One potential hideaway that until now has been completely ignored, however, is De Witt Isle, five miles off the southern coast of Tasmania* in the savage, blustery "Roaring Forties." Its assets are 4,000 acres of jagged rocks, tangled undergrowth and trees twisted and bent by the battering winds. Local fishermen call it the "Big Witch," and settlers have avoided it like the plague, but bandicoots (ratlike marsupials native to Australia), wallabies, eagles and penguins think De Witt is just fine...
...centers, which have no hospital overhead and therefore can make a profit while providing the service at lower rates. Boston's Babcock Artificial Kidney Center charges an all-inclusive $160 per treatment and plans to lower its price to $130-as compared to $387 at the nearby Peter Bent Brigham Hospital...
...aggressive interest in "mental health" is not new to Russia. Czars Alexander I and Nicholas I regularly branded as insane men who wrote and spoke out for individual liberties. Politically bent mental clinics have been operating widely in the U.S.S.R. since the early '20s. Today, compulsory outpatient care for persons who do not fit the official mold often includes heavy doses of tranquilizing drugs. The Soviets have no corner on abusive psychiatry, however. As Dr. Thomas Szasz pointed out in his book The Manufacture of Madness (Harper & Row, 1970), unnecessary incarceration, forced therapy and denial of legal rights...
...staff members at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital--the Medical School's teaching hospital in Roxbury--are on their way to making millions of dollars from a profit-making artificial kidney unit, if their plans succeed...
Hakim spoke quietly, punctuating his words with whichever hand he was not using to prop up his head. Finally, he stopped talking and leaned back against the pillows piled at the head of his bed. The woman bent further forward, kissed him on the cheek and then walked over to the jail ward's wire-mesh door. As a red headed state policeman negotiated the lock, the young woman looked back at the bed where Malik Hakim, torn tendons in both his legs, lay. Hakim touched his dark, long-fingered hands together, and inclined his head towards them...