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What a classic your article the "Dammed Lousewort" [April 11] was! Imagine the gall of this preposterous plant to halt the construction of a "$668 million hydroelectric project" like the Dickey-Lincoln Dam in Maine. For heaven's sake, the species was thought extinct anyway-let's make it official and drown it under a few billion gallons of water. All this endangered-species-list bit is getting boring...
Auckland's "hospital without walls" is aimed not so much at eliminating hospitalization as at shortening it. Barring unforeseen complications, patients who have undergone gall-bladder operations, for example, are sent home only five days after surgery-compared with a typical ten-day hospital stay in the U.S. For these Auckland patients, however, hospital care continues at home. Nurses pay them regular visits. Family members are trained to meet their special needs. Patients may even borrow hospital equipment. It may be an everyday item like a bedpan or cane-or more complicated gear: a respirator, wheelchair or even...
...laughs Dolly. "Thirty-five dollars a set." Then it's back to the bus for the long trip home to Nashville. Dolly settles into her quarters and a long night's talk. "It's a gimmick," she says, pointing to her huge wig. "It takes pure gall to go around under this. I always had a big hairdo. When the style went out, I still loved it. Wigs are great. I can get ready in 15 minutes, faster than any woman I know." Her own hair is shoulder length and light brown. She bleaches it almost white...
...Segal's gall in using the same homogenized success formula is annoying. Love Story was somewhat ingenuous the first time, but this time around Segal's clearly going for the gold. In this version the style is too cute and unoriginal to succeed. But there's an even more irksome side to the Segal works for Harvard readers. Segal's portrayal of Harvard is distorted, yet it is the one that millions of Americans apparently want to believe. The syndrome is a familiar one: Segal obviously fell head over heels in love with Harvard and all its money-encrusted trappings...
...Jimmy Carter, and I'm going to be your next President." The notion seemed preposterous, and most political professionals were dead sure he did not have a chance?but none of the voters laughed in his face. He was such an engaging man?a trifle shy, for all his gall, and there was that sunburst of a smile that people would always remember. Right from the start, he was perceived as being a rather different kind of politician compared with the rest of the field?as different in philosophy and tactics, it was to turn out, as in personal style...