Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe Jerry Reinsdorf knew what he was doing after all. White Sox fans were mortified when the team owner unloaded closer Roberto Hernandez on the San Francisco Giants for a song. But that was before Hernandez blew his second save in as many days, and the Giants lost once again to the Florida Marlins, this time by a 7-6 score. Meanwhile, the Braves used five Houston Astros pitchers for batting practice, and Baltimore once again dismantled the Big Unit and beat Seattle...
...Shander believes, support the need for a more sparing use of blood products. As one of the directors of the Englewood institute, he is convinced that withholding blood is a viable and preferable choice for most patients. It not only benefits many patients but also forces surgeons to pay closer attention to technique and tests their willingness to depart from tradition...
...word of the program begins to spread, health officials from Nebraska to Australia are taking a closer look. Even some forward-thinking doctors have started to follow the nurses' lead. The University of Kansas medical school hopes to use the compressed-video network launched by the nurses to allow future medical students from rural areas the opportunity to complete as much as possible of their education right where they live. "Technology can't replace the content of what we teach," Conners says. "But it allows us to minimize the dislocations, and that's the key to keeping our rural areas...
...sound erupted outside Seaman's tent. A mother was desperately trying to revive her eight-year-old son, who was in a critical stage of cerebral malaria. As he slipped in and out of consciousness, his mother frantically tried to keep him breathing. When Seaman bent down to get closer, a swarm of mosquitoes descended on her ankles and arms in an African feeding frenzy. Ignoring her own discomfort, she prepared an IV, but the boy's blood pressure was so low and his arms so thin that she could not find a vein...
JERUSALEM: Looking closer to death than to the freedom into which he had just been bundled, Sheik Ahmed Yassin was strapped to a stretcher and wheeled across the tarmac before dawn Wednesday, bound for a Jordanian helicopter. The release of the man that Hamas considers its "spiritual leader" was sudden, but not a surprise to those in the know. "The Israelis have debated about releasing Yassin for two years," says TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Lisa Beyer. "They've been terrified that he'll die in jail and provoke even more attacks...