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...themselves in two- day creativity seminars, working on problems like how to raise two candles to eye level in a dark room using only string and paper clips. Only Deliverance might be adequate preparation for one problem-solving ploy practiced at the Gannett-owned News-Press in Fort Myers, Fla. Employees find themselves out at sea in a 25-ft. boat, often with only one experienced sailor on board. Says Madelyn Jennings, a Gannett senior vice president: "Some need to lead. Some need to follow. But they all need to get back to shore...
Most of the time. But not always. The Crimson never won the Ivy title while Montalbano was on the squad. And the Key Biscayne, Fla., native who was named the Miami Player of the Year in 1985 never got to play her natural position at Harvard...
With each passing month, a few more hospitals decide they can no longer stand the strain. Chicago has lost four of its ten trauma centers -- specialized units set up within hospitals to handle victims of car wrecks, violence and other life-threatening injuries. In Dade County, Fla., every hospital has dropped out of the trauma network, except James M. Jackson Memorial: one trauma center for more than 2 million residents. Many other emergency departments across the country have "down licensed," or substantially reduced the scope of their emergency services...
...Altoona, Fla., Edward Walton was a 6-ft. 1-in., 179-lb. bully who once beat his 5-ft. 10-in., 140-lb. friend Ronald Gale so badly that Gale wound up in a hospital with broken ribs. On May 7, 1989, when Walton charged at Gale in a drunken rage, the smaller man pulled out a .25-cal. pistol and shot Walton through the heart. Prosecutors charged Gale with second-degree murder, then accepted his guilty plea to manslaughter; he served 60 days...
Bush runs his own show, another lesson from the Reagan calamity. When the word came that Polhill's deliverance was imminent, the President was fishing off Key Largo, Fla. He got Ambassador to Syria Ed Djerejian on the phone before Djerejian was to pick up Polhill from the Syrian couriers. "Tell them that any improvement in relations is dependent on the release of all the hostages," Bush cautioned. Within five minutes of that phone call, Djerejian, who once worked in the Reagan White House, had Polhill in his car, heading back to the U.S.embassy...