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...many cases they wouldn't have allowed to influence them before." Vincent Riccardi, a neurologist and expert on "Elephant Man" disease, says the issue of trust in California is already moot. He has gone so far as to establish a company, American Medical Consumers, that plans one day to dispatch "personal medical advocates" to negotiate for care on behalf of patients. People must be willing to confront their doctors, he says. "Since the trust is already gone, why not? You've got nothing to lose...
...whether there should be a small force or a larger one, although both would be far more heavily armed than traditional peacekeepers. The minimalists--who last week included a chorus of Republican Representatives--argue that if all the parties sign a peace accord, there should be no need to dispatch an expensive and domestically unpopular military force. The maximalists--including most of the Administration--say that a massive armed presence is needed to guarantee the safety of the troops...
...think of money, and talking about money, as we have seen, makes Crichton sore. In fact, he is tight with a buck and says so. The little software company he formed in the early '80s came about because he saw movie man-hours being squandered on tasks computers could dispatch in minutes. (One more entry for the give-us-a-break file: he won an Academy Award for technical achievement for this assistance to studio accountants.) He wonders crankily about society's fierce curiosity about how much money people make, and all these Top 10 lists of what movies...
Joshua A. Kaufman sent this dispatch from the safe haven of Roslyn, New York...
Workers within the Cambridge Savings Bank pulled a fire alarm at 2:42 p.m., alerting the Cambridge Fire Department dispatch center on Broadway St., according to fire officials...