Word: laxness
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...more troubling are indications that some doctors and hospitals may be lax in protecting patients against exposure to the AIDS virus. Chicago's Illinois Masonic Medical Center has temporarily closed its adult clinic following two alarming incidents. In April a physician taking a Pap smear from a woman unwittingly used a swab that had previously been used to take a culture from an HIV-positive patient. The doctor thought the testing kit, which had been left out unlabeled on a table in the hallway, had been prepared for his use. Just weeks later, two toddlers who had accompanied a woman...
...currently serve 2.5 million children. The real secret is how these schools have been able to do more for less. In the austere '90s, their cost-controlled quality and focus on fundamentals could serve as a model for public school systems seeking to conquer the problems of drugs, violence, lax standards and low morale...
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...kind of unusual that nothing much has been going on yet, but Bush is a tough act to follow," says Joan Lax, a resident of Bow, N.H. "Until the Democrats can get some grass-roots issues to follow, nobody's going to pay attention to them...
...trading of endangered animals, with stiff penalties for violators. Last year two panda traders were executed. But even the threat of capital punishment has failed to slow the poachers. Since the laws were enacted, more than 2,000 illegal killings have been reported, and enforcement of the measures is lax. "The government is interested in protection, but it has too many other things to take care of," explains one exasperated Chinese conservationist. Says the WWF investigator: "There is little effective control. Hunters told me they shoot anything they...