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...Aesih Irawan, tragedy was averted, but she wonders what will happen the next time the earth shakes. Last week, refugee camps in the hills of Pangandaran were still packed with survivors too scared to return home while soldiers dug for corpses along the beach. "I'm very happy to be alive," Irawan says. "But every time I feel an aftershock, I feel like that may change." In catastrophe-plagued Indonesia, you never know when the next warning?if there is one?may be the last...
...crucial part of his plan was to immediately move all of his patients down to subterranean levels, two levels below the earth's surface. It took a lot of shuffling to turn a radiology waiting room into a maternity ward, an MRI scanner space into a recovery room and a heart catheterization laboratory into a neonatal intensive care unit. Nurses there are working furiously to keep a 600 gm. baby girl alive, along with 1.2 kg. twin boys...
While inclusion is the watchword for today's disabled Americans, social isolation remains a painful problem. "Once they leave high school, they can fall off the earth because of a lack of services," says Dennis McGuire, director of psychosocial services at the Adult Down Syndrome Center at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Ill. "If they're stuck at home, they can end up feeling very much alone...
...even centuries, if necessaryIsrael will crumble. Israelis will lose their fortitude under the pressure of attacks, give up and go back to Europe or Russia or, if their roots are in the Middle East, agree to live within an Islamic state. Regardless, the fighters' reward is not here on earth in this lifetime, but in heaven...
WATER FOR ELEPHANTS SARA GRUEN JACOB JANKOWSKI has never had fantasies about joining the circus. But when his parents die suddenly, he freaks out, drops out of vet school, hops a freight train and winds up tending to the menagerie of the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth, a third-rate Depression-era traveling circus. What goes on under the big top is nothing compared with the show backstage. In a sawdust-and-tinsel novel reminiscent of Robertson Davies, Jacob nurses giraffes, bunks with a surly dwarf, falls in love with a sexy horsewoman, gets life lessons from...