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...preparing to remove an adrenal tumor, the anesthesiologist realized during the checklist rundown that extra blood might be required but was not on hand. The blood was delivered to the OR - and the patient did need it during surgery. "I'm convinced that the fact that the anesthesiologist caught that was what saved this man's life," Gawande says, adding that his team averts at least one potential problem via the checklist every week...
...Schram caught fire after the break, hitting 4-for-7 from the floor and winding up with 17 points in the game...
...must be defended. "We have nowhere else to go. Even if our land is burning, it's still ours," says a soft-spoken reservist named Noam, a TV producer in civilian life. He tells me: "Do me a favor, OK? Tell your readers that we're just normal guys caught in an impossible situation...
...Perhaps appropriately, the Normandie ended its days in New York. While being refitted as a troop ship in 1942, it caught fire, capsized and sank in the Hudson River at 47th Street. At war's end it was sold for scrap. But along with other reminders that the two great cities were once joined at the hip of all that was hip, the Normandie lives on in wood, silver and memory. Rivalries end, style endures...
...baby boomers - certainly, from that generation on - felt they had a lot of options, and one of the options was not to work. I think that's why so many women who wanted to make their own way in the world and did so very successfully are kind of caught up in this conflict and this ambivalence about who earns the money...