Word: ers
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...heavily armed police officers wearing flak jackets and two police officers with bomb sniffing dogs stormed into the emergency room soon after the blasts went off. Police sealed off the 16-story building, amidst rumors that someone had left the site of the explosions and had run into the ER. "I've never seen so many police in my life, running around rapidly with their guns," said one woman. "It was very hectic and we weren't told anything." For the police, the search for answers has already begun...
...would go to the North Sea!"), ignoring the advice of theater directors ("barnstorm führers, the lot") and mocking "gibberish spouting" method actors. "When you're playing Hamlet, and you and Horatio are up on the battlements, Horatio says, 'But, look, the morn in russet mantle clad/ Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill.' Well, it isn't! You're looking at Charlie the prop man with a fag in his gob. It's pretend, for God's sake...
...ingredients . . . er, components, are described in Pentagonese worthy of Star Wars. Vanilla flavoring is called for "in such quantities that its presence shall be organoleptically detected, but not to a pronounced degree." Translation: having some taste and smell. Preparation instructions run on for five pages, requiring that "the blended fruitcake batter, sufficient to yield the specified weight, shall then be deposited into cans with liners and disks" and baked at not more than 375° or steamed "to meet the end requirements of 3.5," another section of MIL-F-14499F...
...help get more of them up and running. In New York's Hudson Valley, the Taconic Health Information Network and Community serves 600,000 patients along with area doctors, hospitals, labs, pharmacies, insurers, employers and consumers. If a resident makes an emergency-room visit on a Saturday, the ER doc can pull the patient's records from his personal physician...
...images of the aftermath of daily bomb attacks, Ghosh's article surely was journalism at its best: sharply etched, unsentimental. Articles like his are crucial in aiding our understanding of what actually goes on in Baghdad. You should have put the heroic doctors and nurses of the Baghdad ER on your cover. Sara Kozak New York City...