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With help from Harvard students and the greater Cambridge community, homeless Cantabrigians will not be left cold and hungry this Thanks-giving, as the all-student-run University Lutheran Church Shelter and other area shelters will offer Thanks-giving meals this Thursday...
...dreams of becoming a pediatrician. But perhaps half the AIDS orphans could wind up living in the streets or falling into an overloaded foster-care system. "We're seeing some 3,000 children in the Chicago area who will need placement very soon," says Cathy Blanford of the Lutheran Social Services of Illinois. "I expect the numbers will grow way beyond what anyone can imagine...
...Elizabeth Orsay was hard at work in the trauma center of Chicago's Lutheran General Hospital when she was called away from a patient to answer the phone. To her anger and dismay, the caller was a telemarketing pitchman who was touting a special buy on film. "He managed to get through by deceiving the secretary," the still steaming physician recalls. "I told him that what he had done was totally unethical...
...with bowls of water. And we flush the toilets with rainwater we keep in the bathtub." Doug Riggs, on vacation from his job as a social worker in Marshalltown, drove 75 miles into Des Moines to help out and found himself managing a shelter at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church. But at week's end only 25 flooded-out people had arrived; many more had found family, friends or neighbors to take them...
...unoccupied on an average day) and duplicating costly equipment that they could share. In Iowa, however, so many hospitals are merging that Des Moines may soon be the only city with more than one -- and there two of the remaining three big ones, Iowa Methodist Medical Center and Iowa Lutheran Hospital, are completing a merger. Among other things, they will concentrate on types of care in which they specialize: Methodist's doctors will do the surgery and other specialized care while Lutheran's physicians focus on family practice...