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...prepares for his twice-weekly Kabul-to-Kandahar trips by exchanging his city outfit for the filthy tunic and voluminous trousers of a poor mechanic, the better to fool potential robbers. He rubs grease and dirt on his face to conceal from possible Taliban attackers that he is clean-shaven. These precautions, Saboor says, have saved his life. Just the other day, a gang of thieves robbed his passengers at gunpoint. Two weeks ago, Taliban insurgents pulled some 50 passengers off a bus and slaughtered 27 men they falsely claimed were Afghan soldiers...
...patted the rumpled earth back into face, smoothing it as if soothing a child. “Get your pumpkins out of my flowerbed,” she said. Wonderingly, she held up her hands for the gardener to see. Not a speck of dirt. They were still as clean and white as snow...
...sais quoi of their subject, effortlessly revealing in a single frame either some private moment of the public persona, or some prominent, popular understanding of the individual. The signature element to the Karsh images is the interplay between black and white, shadow and light, and the crisp, clean, solid lines that lend the prints their clarity and poignant definition. It is this element that crystallizes the personalities of the subjects in the eyes of the beholder. Eisenhower, Castro, Khrushchev, Kennedy, Bogart, Loren, Karloff, Hepburn, Auden, Hemingway, Shaw, Einstein, Cousteau, Keller, Ernst, Picasso, and O’Keefe all fill...
...care overall, the data show that respondents weren't equally pleased with every aspect of care. Nearly 80% of patients said they felt their doctors always communicated well with them, for example. But less than three quarters said nursing services were always good, or that their rooms were always clean. Noisiness was an issue: Barely half of the surveyed patients said their rooms were always quiet...
...emergency room down the line. In total, the HCAHPS survey asked 27 questions about patients' demographic characteristics and eight areas of patient perceptions: communication with doctors, communication with nurses, quality of nursing services, communication about medications, pain control, information received when leaving hospital, and whether hospital rooms were clean and quiet. About 80% of surveyed patients felt they got good information at discharge. Only 60% said they always had good information about medications administered to them in the hospital...