Word: coded
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...transcribing a doctor's orders. While the researchers said that most errors were caught in time, and no patients died as a result, 70 people suffered unnecessary complications, 14 life-threatening and 30 others serious. Dr. Lucian Leape of the Harvard team argues that such measures as installing bar-code machines at patients' bedsides to check drug sensitivities could eliminate the errors, many of which could kill patients if undetected in time...
This lethal snafu is likely to aggravate charges that the Air Force has tended to distort and cover up information in its investigation of the incident as well as other accidents involving military aircraft. Senior Army pilots flying in Iraq on the day of the shoot-down discovered the coding glitch after they were called as expert witnesses at the court-martial of Air Force Captain Jim Wang. A top officer aboard the AWACS reconnaissance plane coordinating U.S. aircraft in the region, Wang was cleared last week of all charges in connection with the shoot-down. As the Army pilots...
...used his position as publisher of dozensof newspapers to further awareness of socialproblems. In one eight-part series of editorialsin the Gainesville (Fla.) Sun, Harrison called fora minimum housing code in order to get urbanrenewal funds for low-cost minority housing. Theseries won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1965 andresulted in the construction of more than 8,000new housing units in the city after the code waspassed...
...have not lost hope because I am persuadedagain and again that, lying dormant in the deepestroots of most, if not all, cultures there is anessential similarity, something that could bemade--if the will to do so existed--a genuinelyunifying starting point for that new code of humanco-existence that would be firmly anchored in thegreat diversity of human traditions...
...Next month Sunset Publishing, the Northern California-based book-and-magazine company most noted for its expertise on Western gardening, will release a CD-ROM with the largest encyclopedic plant data base on the market. Ken Winchester says the gardener will be able to type in a ZIP code and every plant species that thrives in that specific zone will pop up. Better Homes and Gardens unveiled the cd-rom of its Better Homes and Gardens Complete Guides to Gardening last year and has a best seller of more than 100,000-at $49.95. Already on the market...