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...Dunn. "There are 30 people standing around a pile of money, and what they don't spend at the end of the year they get to split with the CEO." Dunn makes a point of not rushing patients out the door. The average length of stay for a normal birth is two days, compared with 1.3 at Bedford Regional. And the stay is also longer at Dunn for conditions like heart failure and shock, atherosclerosis and diabetes...
...Prohibition created the bootleg-booze industry, Hollywood moralizing gave birth to exploitation films. With the adoption of a Production Code in 1922, the major studios ostensibly promised to renounce the ribald. Into that vacuum crept sideshowmen like Dwain Esper, who directed (ludicrously) and promoted (brilliantly) the first grindhouse classics. The 1934 Maniac, about a mad scientist's even daffier assistant whose ailurophobia leads him to rip out a cat's eye and eat it ("Why, it's not unlike an oyster"), pretended to be a serious study of dementia praecox. Esper used the old carny come...
...Journal of the National Cancer Institute establishes the first concrete risk factor for the disease. With fewer ovulations come fewer mutations of the p53 gene and a substantially reduced risk for developing the cancer that kills 15,000 women in the U.S. each year. But while pregnancies and birth control pills, which lower ovulation histories, appear to provide the surest means of slashing the risk for developing ovarian cancer, such defenses are far from a practical weapon. Without an effective screening test, ovarian cancer looks set to remain a brutally efficient killer...
GIVE ME A SMILE Depressed mothers seem to give birth to babies with similar symptoms--elevated levels of stress hormones, few facial expressions and trouble sleeping. Their brain waves too mimic those of their depressed moms...
This time, however, Romero is competing not with id but against it. Last November he and id marketing whiz Mike Wilson abruptly left the company, hooked up with Tom Hall (an id designer who had left earlier), moved into a Dallas skyscraper and announced the birth of a new company, ION Storm. Their first product is called Daikatana, and the E3 show this week is their best chance to spark some buzz for a Christmas '97 software season in which they will almost certainly go head-to-head with id's Quake II. How to finish the demo in time...