Word: lexington
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...everyone is waiting for the law to change. More and more hospitals are following the lead of pioneers like the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Lexington, Ky., and Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Md., in establishing formal policies requiring medical staff to promptly admit and apologize for mistakes. Having adopted that approach, the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor, which encompasses the university medical school, three hospitals and numerous other health facilities, has seen its annual number of malpractice claims and lawsuits drop almost 50%, from 260 in 2001 to 140 in 2004, and its average legal expense...
Fifteen minutes before the service starts, 100 middle schoolers are already squeezed into a basement rumpus room. The weekly worship for middle schoolers at Grace Chapel in the Boston suburb of Lexington, Mass., is called the Edge, a fitting name for a gathering that appears to be on the brink of anarchy. In one corner girls pouring orange juice giggle contagiously as the juice spills on the table, carpet and doughnuts. In another corner a number of boys are exploring ways to injure themselves with folded metal chairs--like swinging them at one another. A soccer ball zips past...
...Foxx, Williams, and Dom. The group recounted bygone Boston glories and dared to predict future victories. From such hushed intercourse, movements are born. These renegades with their neckties, bow ties, wingtips, and dedication to the Sox weren?t unlike Hancock, Revere, and the gang, huddling in that tavern in Lexington and banging down whatever it was Sam Adams was brewing back in April...
...BLOHARDS convened, perforce, beyond the DMZ: in the New England Room of the Hotel Lexington, in the fiftieth floor dining room of the McGraw-Hill Building, even in the Combo Room of Yankee Stadium. Can you imagine 138 BLOHARDS no more than a short fly ball from Steinbrenner?s box? It happened...
...there were just 78 such courts; today the number is 1,035 and growing. Some are run by schools, others by police departments or nonprofit groups. All told, these junior courts will hold more than 100,000 trials this year, according to the National Youth Court Center in Lexington, Ky. Advocates say they not only help relieve criminal-court backlogs but have also proved they can turn around a kid who has gone wrong. A study by the Urban Institute found that youth courts are often more effective in preventing repeat crimes than are other methods used by cities...