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...standing by one night as "eight or nine bears climbed inside some Dumpsters and threw out food that coyotes fought over in a frenzy." He worried about children getting hurt. But killing pesky bears on public-safety grounds raised ethical problems. So he turned to Searles, a local glass contractor experienced in hunting and trapping who once solved a local coyote problem by killing a marauding pack's alpha males...
Searles, an intense, ponytailed Ichabod Crane figure, was asked to study the bears and suggest how everybody could get along. The contractor watched them dine at heavily trafficked Dumpsters for nearly a year. He discovered a culture of dominance in which some ate first and others waited. He watched bears urinate and defecate to mark territories. He consulted biologists, who explained that black bears instinctively climb trees rather than attack...
...They're real old clocks and they're debating whether to update the whole clock system," said Donald M. Hawes of Hawes Electric Construction, Inc., the contractor performing the on Lamont...
...Hunter go there. Rubin placed a call to Duke hepatologist James Trotter, explaining that he had a seriously ill transplant candidate and that he understood that the insurer, PHP, had a contract with Duke to do liver transplants. Trotter, according to Rubin, said he recognized PHP as a Duke contractor and arranged to have a plane pick Hunter up in Charleston. It was nearly midnight, Sept. 2, when Hunter checked in to the surgical ICU ward at Duke in Durham...
...hospital with no plan to pay for an operation that could cost anywhere from $80,000, if the procedure went smoothly, to perhaps $1 million, if complications arose. The precipitating error apparently took place in the back offices of MUSC in Charleston, where someone misidentified Duke as a PHP contractor. One possibility is that PHP's contract with Duke to do bone-marrow transplants was misconstrued as a liver contract. Another is that Physician's Health Plan was confused with another provider that is also sometimes referred to as PHP: Partners National Health Plan, a North Carolina insurer that does...