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...setting is the pediatrics ward of a Los Angeles charity hospital, where (it hardly needs to be said, since serious fiction seems to have no other topic as our troubled millennium ticks away) civilization is banging and whimpering toward its well-deserved end. The characters are Kraft, a harried, too sensitive surgeon-in-training; Espera, a gallant nurse; and an appalling procession of dying children. The doomed kids arrive by ambulance and taxi, bleeding from gunshot wounds, septic with cancers both physical and psychological, withering from every disease in the manual. Kraft prunes and hacks and catheterizes; Espera listens...
...what is the secret of this ageless enchantress? Can concentration be the answer? The columnist Joseph Kraft remarked that she is "an eloquent listener." Her brilliant blue eyes never rake the room but stay focused on her companion. "She coaxes secrets out of men because she works at it," observes Holbrooke, just named ambassador to Germany. "When she goes after a man, he is a goner...
...launch a yearlong anti-BGH campaign that includes full-page newspaper ads, 30- second TV and radio spots, and a grass-roots boycott of companies that continue to use the hormone. "We've got a short list of potential targets," he declared before a packed hearing room last week. "Kraft, are you here? Safeway, are you here? Land-O-Lakes, are you here...
...College health services successfully respond to cries for accessible responsive quality services at an affordable cost. Indeed, the college health model fully integrates direct medical and psychological care with health education activites to promote healthier lifestyles." Kraft said...
...Director," Kraft S. Rosenthal '59 says the health services cooperative approach must be transferred to the new system...