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DIED. SEYBOURN LYNNE, 93, the longest-serving active U.S. federal judge, who in 1963 famously ordered Governor George Wallace not to bar two black students from attending the University of Alabama; in Birmingham...
...course, it is only a doomsday scenario, one that may seem "X-treme" in its own right. But given the exposure that the league will get via its contract with NBC, the local support that the franchises in smaller markets like Orlando and Birmingham will receive and astounding popularity of wrestling and McMahon himself, it is unlikely that the XFL can do anything but succeed...
...because she's exhausted," says Margaret Clausen, president of the California Hospice Foundation. On average, hospice patients receive at least three hours a day more attention than nursing-home patients. And hospice is cheaper than traditional care. For example, at Balm of Gilead Center, a hospice in Birmingham, Ala., the average cost per patient per day is $720, in contrast to $3,180 for ICU patients...
...takes doctors longer to make the right diagnosis. All the while, their heart isn't getting potentially life-saving treatment with clot-busting drugs, beta-blockers or emergency angioplasty. These delays, says Dr. John Canto, the study's lead author and a cardiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, help explain why a heart-attack patient who doesn't experience chest pains is twice as likely to die at the hospital as someone who does. "Time is [heart] muscle," he notes. "And muscle is life...
Rice, who served as provost of Stanford and is George W. Bush's foreign policy adviser, grew up in Birmingham and was seven at the time of the bombing