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...typical ten-day hospital stay in the U.S. For these Auckland patients, however, hospital care continues at home. Nurses pay them regular visits. Family members are trained to meet their special needs. Patients may even borrow hospital equipment. It may be an everyday item like a bedpan or cane-or more complicated gear: a respirator, wheelchair or even an electrical hoist like the one that helps Susan Foss...
...caps I suppose well buddy you suppose wrong I am your collective conscience the boys you sent off to fight in the trenches and we won't be back til it's over over over there yes yes yes yes yes and it counts yes yes yes si ja cane cain kain k-k-k-k-katie wonderful katie yes yes no I can't believe this yes yes later yes later later later...
...sure how long the coffee boom will last. Some savvy coffee growers in southern Brazil are replanting in soybeans, wheat and sugar cane. They fear that the current coffee shortage will lead other farmers to overplant, thereby producing a future surplus and a resulting collapse in the coffee market. There is also a threat of further devastation from coffee leaf rust, a fungus disease that was swept by the trade winds from West Africa to Brazil. About 400 acres of coffee trees in Nicaragua's Carazo province have already been razed in an attempt to stop the rust...
...best show in town-also rated PG was, as usual, Meany himself, 82, who has been the pre-eminent U.S. labor figure since the 1960s. Bothered by an old hip ailment, he needs a cane to get around. His eyesight is so poor that when he plays golf, he has to have his aides tell him how far it is to the green. But during "the Meany show," the midday press conference that follows each closed-door, morning meeting, the AFL-CIO chiefs humor is as quick and salty as ever...
...following World War II. The film features Glenn Ford, Rita Hayworth, and an actor whose name I always forget, who plays a Rio casino owner-cum-international tungsten cartel boss. It revolves around two sinister triangles: one, a quasi-homosexual link between the tungsten boss, the boss's sword-cane, and Glenn Ford (the other, between Rita Hayworth, the Tungsten boss (who marries her), and Ford (who has had a bitter affair with her and becomes the boss's lieutenant). The clash of the two triangles nearly destroys all three of them, and makes possible the emergence of the movie...