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Rauschenberg was a Texas boy, two parts Anglo, one part German, one part Cherokee. He was born in 1925 in one of the most art-free zones of America, Port Arthur, a bayou oil-refinery town on the Gulf of Mexico. His parents were Fundamentalist Christians, and as a teenager...
Breathing on a ventilator, and without a drop of transfused blood flowing in his veins, Jackson gradually began to respond to the treatment. Within four days his blood count had risen significantly. Soon after, he was shaking his head in disbelief and telling his doctors, "If it wasn't for...
In one especially difficult case that Shander oversaw at Englewood, 11-year-old Cristali Rodriguez came in with a rare pancreatic tumor, one of only 300 documented cases worldwide. Doctors in Philadelphia had declined to perform a Whipple procedure, a complex reconstruction of the digestive tract rarely performed on a...
Flinn leaves the service with a stigma on her service record. By military definition, a general discharge is given to someone whose "service has been honest and faithful," according to military regulations, but when "significant negative aspects of the member's conduct or performance of duty outweigh positive aspects of...
Mariner is not happy with Flinn's negotiated discharge. Like many in the military, she believes that the bomber pilot manipulated public opinion to bypass an established if flawed system of justice. But as the military rules of romantic engagement grate repeatedly against our current excruciating sensitivity about gender and...