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...advice did not immediately take. Dr. Bob went to Atlantic City, N.J., for a convention; several days later, he showed up at the Akron train station, smashed. On June 10, the dried-out but still jittery doctor was due in surgery. That morning, Bill W. gave Dr. Bob a bottle of beer--to steady his scalpel hand. The operation was a success. The beer was Dr. Bob's last. And the two men pledged that day to work to bring Bill W.'s principles to other alcoholics, one day at a time. --By James Poniewozik
...didn't occur to me that the missile flying over Camp Iwo Jima in the northern Kuwaiti desert might not be friendly. I'm a doctor, a medical correspondent, not a bang-bang journalist. But I noticed all the Marines around me were hitting the deck. Five seconds later, the alarm "Bunker! Bunker! Bunker!" blared over the P.A. system. Over the next 20 hours, I would share with 70 Marines and two CNN colleagues the same space and the same occupation: target...
...female POWs in U.S. history - one in the Civil War, scores of nurses held by the Japanese on the Philippines during World War II, two in the first Gulf war and now, one more. In person and in her book, She Went to War: The Rhonda Cornum Story, the doctor, soldier, wife and mother - then 38 - wrote about her ordeal with a gung-ho matter-of-factness. As a flight surgeon assigned to the 229th Attack Helicopter Regiment at Fort Rucker, Alabama, she was aboard a Blackhawk searching for a downed F-16 pilot on February 27, 1991 when...
...American traveling through Vietnam fell ill and infected more than two dozen hospital workers; he died last Thursday in Hong Kong. No travel bans have been issued, but health officials are discouraging nonessential flights to Asia and urging travelers who suspect they have the illness to see a doctor and not fly again until they recover...
DIED. MANNY HARMON, 93, Big Band leader who was a fixture of G.O.P. conventions from 1956 to 1992; in Century City, Calif. He prided himself on knowing the tastes of G.O.P. leaders--such as Ronald Reagan's favorite song, the theme from Doctor Zhivago. Asked about his political affiliation, he replied: "I belong to the Cocktail Party...