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Many hospitals are so concerned with cutting down on preventable errors, though, that they are ignoring the risk of malpractice claims and doggedly rooting out their mistakes. Even in the hours before Ben Kolb died, for example, Martin Memorial hospital's risk-management director Doni Haas had launched an investigation, sealing off the operating room and seizing the syringes, instruments and medications used in the procedure. She could do this without being obstructed, she says, because the hospital staff was focused on finding the cause of the problem and preventing such a thing from happening again...
...these efforts are laudable, but unless they are universally adopted, patients will continue to die--not through gross negligence or incompetence but through plain human error. "This is a wake-up call," says Arthur Levin, director of the Center for Medical Consumers, based in New York City, and a member of the committee that wrote the new report. "The American health-care system has not put safety at the top of its agenda. Generally, they say this problem doesn't exist. But this is not an aberration. It's an all too common occurrence. And it is unconscionable to allow...
Disney typically gambles big, then hedges its bets. To make F2K an event, it will premiere the film on Dec. 17 at New York City's Carnegie Hall, with James Levine, artistic director of the Metropolitan Opera, conducting the London Philharmonia. The orchestra will also play during the movie in London, Paris, Tokyo and, on New Year's Eve, Pasadena, Calif. Then, for four months, the film will be shown only on the gigantic screens in 75 IMAX theaters. (Our advice to moviegoers: sit in the back!) And to camouflage a high-art stigma, F2K employs genial onscreen hosts: Bette...
...real audience is people who believe in the artistic potential of animation. The movie celebrates that potential, often spectacularly so. Respighi's Pines of Rome metamorphoses, in director Hendel Butoy's vision, into a classic fairy-tale theme of a child separated from its parents. The child is a whale, inside a hollow iceberg; it fretfully watches its parents' shadows outside the ice wall as it tries to escape. Then it magically floats up on a shaft of light and joins the rest of the pod. Together they all soar, through clouds, until with a great splash they come...
Oddly, the most protean among them is the least well known today. No other 20th century figure approaches Coward's creative breadth: playwright, actor, composer, lyricist, novelist, stage director, film producer, Vegas "entertainer." His nose for talent was such that he launched Laurence Olivier's career and produced the first four films directed by David Lean. "Success," he once said, "took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor...