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Dana-Farber has acknowledged full responsibility for Lehman's death, as well as the permanent heart damage of another woman who managed to survive an identical fourfold overdose. In addition to ordering an exhaustive investigation, the hospital's top physician has mandated additional precautions against such egregious mistakes. Staff members have been reassigned, and the pharmacy's computer program has been modified so that drugs cannot be dispensed over preset limits...
...Kong every day to take up jobs, as against half that number a decade ago. This year the Japanese government's Japan Exchange and Teaching Program, which offers one-year contracts to foreigners to work with local municipalities or as assistant language teachers, attracted 4,100 U.S. applicants, up fourfold since...
Wall Street, which loved the Timberland stock as much as consumers loved the Timberland look, had sent the share price up fourfold since January. (At the same time, the boot trend kicked Nike stock down more than 40%.) But last week Timberland stock dropped from 83 1/4 to 71 5/8 in two days before closing the week at 73. A report in Barron's suggested that the stock was overpriced and noted that Nike and other sneaker makers were rushing out their own lines of rugged footwear...
...over this cheese; it looks and tastes just like the regular kind): commission-free stock trading. As if all this other great stuff weren't reason enough to plop down your hard-earned bucks for shares of Snapple, up fivefold in the past 10 months, or Callaway Golf, up fourfold, now there are several ways to play the game on the supercheap. Stocks have become expensive, but the cost of buying them has come way down. It's kind of like the free helicopter to the airport Pan Am used to provide when you bought a $4,000 first-class...
...Butterfly, David Cronenberg's film of the David Henry Hwang play about a tryst between a French diplomat (Jeremy Irons) and a Chinese man (John Lone) whom he believes to be a woman; it opens commercially Oct. 1. This Wednesday, Wayne Wang's lovely The Joy Luck Club, a fourfold Terms of Endearment based on Amy Tan's best-selling novel about a quartet of Chinese-American families, premieres in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. "Maybe Asian is the flavor of the month," Wang says. "That taste keeps changing, but now it has coincided with the maturity...