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...Back in the nation's hospitals, of course, it's business as usual. Even as the AMA prepares to debate the fate of the 36-hour day, residents around the country are driving to work, mentally preparing themselves for a day, a night and another day of life-and-death decisions. And all the while, most of them are using their hard-won medical knowledge not only to save lives - but also to puzzle out a way of ingesting caffeine via discreet intravenous tubing...
...managers may gather around a conference table in a windowless room with a computer screen filled with employee rankings projected on one wall. Each participant comes armed with notebooks bulging with job reviews. As the discussion proceeds, the managers may shift people from one ranking to another, deciding their fate with the click of a computer mouse...
...Blake, and would not have felt threatened by him anyway. But time was on Blake's side. Does any Reynolds fix itself in memory with the tragic vividness of Blake's watercolor of King Nebuchadnezzar, a taloned half-beast on all fours, glaring from the confines of his intolerable fate like an animal in a cage? Blake believed he had been appointed by supreme powers to render the most elevated scenes of Milton and the Bible in the language of Michelangelo and Raphael; in this he was wrong, but what an ambition...
...King Priam, lustily kidnaps Sparta's Queen Helen. Preparing to retaliate, Agamemnon spends three years scheming to gather the thousand ships and heroes prophesied as pivotal to victory. One of these, Achilles, has been hidden among the female charges of a minor king to protect him from his bloody fate. The book ends where most others would begin, as the forces set sail for Troy...
...TIME White House correspondent John Dickerson, who has been keeping close track of the Patients? Bill of Rights, spoke with TIME.com about the legislation - and its likely fate...