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...calling into base after his first encounter with the enemy: "I stopped moving and tried to slow my breathing. It was my first firefight; I didn't want to sound frantic or panicked on the radio, since how you sound when you call in during your first enemy contact can come to define how you're viewed by those above and below you for the rest of your tour. Frantic-sounding lieutenants lose everyone's confidence immediately...
...fever for a while afterward. No one really knows why. But if a computer picks up the temperature elevation, it could prompt doctors to record a "fever of unknown origin" - a diagnosis that often triggers a bigger payment. EMR can inject more higher-paying codes into our patient contact, squeezing that much more money out of it, and quite innocently too. It is, after all, a computer forcing these choices. (See the most common hospital mishaps...
...suddenly, with symptoms that include nausea, diarrhea and stomach cramping, and sometimes low-grade fevers, chills and muscle ache, all of which normally resolve within three days. People contract the virus by eating contaminated food, touching contaminated surfaces and then placing their hands in their mouths, or through casual contact with an infected person, suggesting the illness could have been brought to the restaurant by a customer carrying the virus. Regardless of who triggered the health scare, "it's affected the restaurant big time because we had to cancel on 800 people," Blumenthal said. (Vote for the 2009 TIME...
...asked myself, why not? I’m a senior. I’m single. If one of these girls goes Fatal Attraction on me, I’m out of here in three months. And when am I going to receive contact information for ten (most likely) intelligent, (probably) interesting, and (hopefully) attractive girls ever again...
...past but made no attempt to alter her appearance. She threw lavish parties, became a noted social activist, and even appeared in local productions of Shakespeare. But her past lurked beneath the veneer of normalcy: during the 1990s, the FBI began to close in, and Olson began attempting to contact authorities through a San Francisco reporter to discuss terms of surrender. In 1999, after the TV show America's Most Wanted profiled Soliah on the 25th anniversary of the California bank shooting, she was pulled over by police while driving her minivan...