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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What's shocking is how often it happens. Depending on which statistics you believe, the number of Americans killed by medical screw-ups is somewhere between 44,000 and 98,000 every year--the eighth leading cause of death even by the more conservative figure, ahead of car crashes, breast cancer and AIDS. More astonishing than the huge numbers themselves, though, is the fact that public health officials had known about the problem for years and hadn't made a concerted effort to do something about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doctors' Deadly Mistakes | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

Though Coward, who died in 1973, is intensely beloved by a devoted coterie, the wider audience knows him mostly for his brittle, epigrammatic plays--particularly Private Lives and Blithe Spirit--or for that foolproof cinematic stirrer of the female breast, Brief Encounter. But where his plays and films bear the whiff of a long-gone age, Coward's songs retain their vitality: the frisky list songs that display his wit (Mad Dogs and Englishmen; Don't Put Your Daughter on the Stage, Mrs. Worthington) and the achingly tender ballads that reveal his unmatched capacity for genuine sentiment (If Love Were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sad About the Boy: Noel Coward | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...video of professional riders alternately pulling off spectacular moves and crashing into trees, the HUSC members talk lifts, trails and weather predictions. Along with questions like "Is sliding on rails really bad for your board?" members finalize plans for a trip to the annual Board-a-thon for Breast Cancer, which took place at Stratton Mountain yesterday...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stress-Free Sundays Mean Riding Rails, Raising Money | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...club's trip to the Board-a-thon yesterday was about more than fun in the snow. Pledges collected by event participants will go to various charities that support breast cancer research...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stress-Free Sundays Mean Riding Rails, Raising Money | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...spoke again: "You're free to refuse, and I'm free to tell you that should you accept, your life will last much longer than most, and long years of it will feel like no pain other humans know, not even your mother with the demon that ate her breast like bread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesus Of Nazareth Then And Now | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

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