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...might be expected, sales in the U.S. fell more sharply than most anywhere else, down 3.5%. But, a huge number of American homes have more than one PC. The need to replace them is falling as the greater processing power makes it unnecessary for new machines to be purchased as frequently. And, to top that off, people do not want to spend $1,000 when money is tight...
Meanwhile, rescue workers feverishly tossed out ropes and ladders over the frozen river and launched rubber dinghies, but their efforts were hampered by floating chunks of ice. As dusk fell, searchlights were switched on, but by 5:30, officials realized the quest was in vain. Divers sent down to inspect the fuselage had discovered that nearly all of the passengers were still strapped in their seats. The toll: 78 dead, including four motorists. Only five aboard Flight 90-four passengers and a stewardess-survived the first major U.S. airline crash in 26 months...
...Vishnu whose form, along with his two brothers’, is pulled through the streets in a 45-foot-high chariot each July by thousands of devotees. The festival is also the original source of the word “juggeraut.”Unfortunately my visit to Puri fell far wide of this celebration, and since the temple complex at Puri is closed to non-Hindus, I could only gaze within its walls from the roof of a local “private library.” And so I entered one of the more common and less insidious...
...right words used in the operating room can be more powerful than many drugs. New research published today in the New England Journal of Medicine found that when surgical teams heeded a simple checklist - as pilots do before takeoff - patient-mortality rates were cut nearly in half and complications fell by more than a third...
...study - which included 7,688 patients in eight hospitals around the world - saw death rates drop from 1.5% before the checklist was instituted to 0.8% afterward. Serious complications fell from 11% to 7%. Study sites included Seattle, London, Toronto, New Delhi, and Ifakara, Tanzania. (See TIME's A-Z Health Guide...