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...Koreans, ever the industrious builders, have torn down the rigid structure of an authoritarian regime and constructed in its stead a brash new democracy. As is obvious to anyone who has watched the images of student demonstrations and political protest flicker across a television screen, it is a system beset by imperfection, discord and conflict, riven by diverse opinions and hot tempers, but a functioning democracy nonetheless...
...Beset by patients who cannot pay and doctors who fear malpractice suits, special emergency trauma centers are on the critical list...
...Beset by high costs and poor patients, often ignored by paramedics and abandoned by doctors who fear malpractice suits, the nation's trauma centers -- specialized 24-hour emergency rooms -- have been especially hard hit. Last week the Journal of the American Medical Association published a survey of U.S. regional trauma systems that came up with a disturbing diagnosis. Twenty- two years after the National Academy of Sciences declared that trauma was the "neglected disease of modern society," only two states, Maryland and Virginia, have set up acceptable statewide systems. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia either have incomplete coverage...
Bush has an easygoing disposition and a raft of friends he swamps with notes and phone calls. Generous to a fault, he once opened his cramped apartment at Yale to a former Andover teacher beset by alcoholism. Dukakis is frugal to the point of cheapness. He has never made many friends; two school chums he did have were sacrificed to his career. In high school, Dukakis cared so little for peer approval that he went around scolding fellow students for not putting milk cartons into the trash bin. His yearbook calls him "Chief Big Brain-in- Face...
Office work, whether it takes place in the executive suite or the typing pool, has never been regarded as particularly hazardous. After all, there is no heavy lifting and no brutal machinery. But it may not be particularly healthy either. More and more employees are complaining that they are beset during deskbound hours by a panoply of miseries, from stuffy heads and watery eyes to nosebleeds, headaches and that just-plain-lousy feeling. Doctors and employers have long tended to dismiss such distress as hypochondria, but no longer. Increasingly, the grousing is considered to signal a real problem: indoor...