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...morning, was determined to get online. He set up shop at a table and waited. Slowly, the Internet connection returned and by 1 p.m. he was in business. "I'll probably come back here when I need to get on the Internet again," he said. "It's amazing how helpless we are without...
Friction between patients and their nurses may also account for the impulse to escape: the helpless elderly see the nursing staff as bored and grudging; though many nurses are heroically selfless, some think of themselves as stuck at the bottom of their profession. "Nurses who work in nursing homes traditionally have been stigmatized by their professional peers," says H. Terri Brower, a professor of nursing at the University of Miami's School of Nursing. Says Ruth Tappen, another professor at the school: "Nurses are not interested in working in nursing homes. They don't want to go near the places...
Later, the most famous patient of the war lay under a sheet, three of her limbs in bandages, and cried. It was not so much the pain but the feeling, the desolation, of being alone and helpless. She had never been alone. She had slept within reach of her baby sister. She was from a family where her mother would pull one of her teenage daughters into her lap and hold her just because it felt nice. Even after she had left home there had been Lori and Ruben...
...high school student had been chased by gunmen in a similar vehicle. On both occasions he had been in his own car and was able to get away. Now, walking down a narrow street toward his home in a middle-class Baghdad neighborhood, the 16-year-old was helpless. "They had me. Either they would take me or shoot me down as I tried to run." The Opel stopped, the rear door swung open, and one of the passengers pointed a pistol at him. Another reached out and dragged Omar in by the collar. Tires squealing, the car pulled away...
...DWYER AND KEVIN FLYNN To a helpless audience of millions, the Twin Towers were silent black boxes. 102 Minutes makes them speak, using the e-mails and phone calls that poured out of the buildings in the last frenzied moments on Sept. 11, 2001, to show how rescue workers, stock brokers, security guards and secretaries fought through a maze of locked doors and blocked stairways as the clock ticked down. Sometimes the tersest fragments are the most eloquent, like the record of a 911 call that reads simply, "Female caller states they are stuck in elevator. States they are dying...