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...called Doctors by Phone, which provides professional medical advice for $3 a minute. Similar campaigns are scheduled to appear next month in Los Angeles, Miami and Chicago, among other cities. But the program has already drawn fierce criticism. Says Philip Boyle, an ethicist at the Hastings Center in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.: "There is just no substitute for the clinical encounter. They are selling something that they cannot provide...
Never mind that trying to grow grass in hot, cold or arid regions is almost as silly as trying to grow kelp. Americans have belawned 25 million to 30 million acres, an area larger than Virginia. Lawn is our connection to the English manor houses to which most of us cannot trace our ancestors; it is the decent, respectably dull necktie we knot around our houses...
...female creative team. Producer Heidi Landesman also designed the allegorical, imagistic set, based on a child's toy theater. Director Susan Schulman has laced the narrative with ghosts and wraiths of memory. Composer Lucy Simon blended folk music apt to the Yorkshire locale with art songs fitting the moneyed manor-house setting. Librettist-lyricist Marsha Norman solved the self-containment of the three main characters by making their songs vehicles for thoughts they would never merely speak. Although the creators stress their sensitivity to the book's fans, they were not revisiting childhood pleasures of their own; most remembered...
Mary McCall, a sophomore at Pine Manor College who said she goes to the Pi "four nights out of seven," said her experiences at the club have been positive ones...
...revenue, which was generated because the hospital served an extraordinarily large number of patients, will be used to cover costs and make new capital improvements in both the hospital and Neville Manor, the city's nursing home. In addition, approximately $1 million will go to creating a new health clinic in the Riverside neighborhood of Cambridge, which hospital administrators say will further increase the number of patients using the hospital...