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...Visiting Zheng He's Indonesian ports of call isn't exactly a scenic journey. There's beauty, not least in the spirit of people who will without fail return a smile with a bigger smile, but most of these places don't show up on postcards. The next leg on Sumatra is a prime example: between the dusty, trashy port town of Dumai and the city of Medan some 10 bumpy hours by car to the north, the eye catches on the bare-bones shacks with their thatched roofs and cleanly swept earthen yards, smarts through the smoke of fires...
...inserted a gastric tube to make feeding easier. They said she lacked the brain capacity to suffer, but Nancy is not so sure. Some nights her daughter whimpered for hours. One night in the seventh month, David went to check on her. "I just touched the back of her leg. Her body was really cool. Even though you prepare yourself..." He woke his wife and said, "She's gone." Nancy changed her daughter's diaper a last time...
...likeability of the crew is greatly helped by the fact that their airline rarely gives them bad news to pass on to passengers: JetBlue's on-time record is among the best in the business. (On my two flights last month we got in five minutes early on one leg, and 15 on the other...
When Cheney entered the hospital last Saturday just after 8 a.m., doctors gave him a mild sedative, then threaded a wire through one of the veins in his right leg up to his heart. By sending different electrical pulses through the wire, the physicians succeeded in re-creating the irregular heartbeats that were picked up by the Holter monitor. Then they figured out where to place the lead wires from the ICD to ensure that it would deliver the correct voltage to the appropriate spots on the heart whenever the heart needed to resume a normal beat...
...skies, it is DVT that has captured most public attention. Erroneously referred to as "economy-class syndrome," DVT can strike cramped passengers in any section of an aircraft. In some victims, the effect of the blood clots might be a sharp stabbing pain and swelling in the lower leg. In others, it might be much more serious: part of the clot may detach itself and travel through the bloodstream to the lungs, where it can cause a pulmonary embolism, an obstruction that can prove fatal. The Slater & Gordon case goes to the heart of the issue: to be successful...