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...have been [filled up] since August. It's primarily Harvard parents," said Harvard Manor House General Manager Coleen Kane...
Nobody knows precisely how much of Passyunk Avenue's merchandise is hot. Palamarchuk believes it's more than 90%. Tony Kane, a special agent who covers Philadelphia for the National Insurance Crime Bureau, guesses 40%. "The general attitude on Passyunk is that if I don't buy it, the next yard will," says Kane. "You'll walk into a lot of yards and see nothing but a few doors and a lot of junk. That's because calls are made, orders are taken, and things get done through the back door...
...lines are statewide; others reach yards and body shops as far away as Florida or California. "I'm looking for a '91 Cadillac Seville left door," broadcasts one merchant. Before long, another responds, "I can fill that order." Fine, but does the seller have it in stock, wonders Kane, or will he arrange for a special-order theft? There's no way to tell, which makes the monitoring of hot lines by law enforcement virtually useless...
...Kane says the hospital leadership realized they had a choice between continuing to "fight with each other over a shrinking patient care pie," or trying to cooperate. The fighting would be expensive, and some hospitals might close, she says...
Technological advances have meant that patients spend less time overnight in hospitals, Kane says...