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...attack comes, he'll need them for doctors and patients alike. The nearby fighting has created a steady stream of patients. Surgery goes on nonstop all day. Warren, an orthopedic surgeon, just operated on a 5-month-old Iraqi girl, who was later airlifted to the hospital ship U.S.S. Comfort. She was in her mother's arms when shrapnel passed through both her feet. Her mother didn't survive. Says Warren: "We didn't expect to be operating on children here...
...cooled Whirlwind engine, a splendid name for something attached to little more than a flying gasoline can. But the Atlantic was ocean, with no chance of a soft landing for 4,000 miles. He crossed it in 33 1/2 hours, the first to do it solo and nonstop. You'd think he'd brag. But Anne Morrow, who married him, recalled being captivated by his shyness. It burnished her image of his landing at Le Bourget airfield, "the picture of that mad crowd, that whole nation surging around his plane in Paris," she wrote. "I can see how they...
...attack comes, he'll need them for doctors and patients alike. The nearby fighting has created a steady stream of patients. Surgery goes on nonstop all day. Warren, an orthopedic surgeon, just operated on a 5-month-old Iraqi girl. She was in her mother's arms when shrapnel passed through both her feet. Her mother didn't survive. Says Warren: "We didn't expect to be operating on children here...
...improvements could present a mixed blessing. As any 8-to 10-year-old can testify, the Game Boy Advance will suck the life out of a pair of AA batteries in just a couple of weeks of regular play (or 18 hours nonstop), so the rechargeable batteries, which last about 10 hours, could mean big cost savings. But the SP's smaller size, not much bigger than a deck of cards, makes the SP easier to hide in pockets or under pillows. With the new backlight--long overdue--kids will surely spend even more quality time lost in virtual combat...
...City is giving him the largest show of his already formidable career. The museum's spiraling dome has been made over into a recondite theme-park pavilion, filled with banners, video screens, Barney's sculptures and other artifacts of the Cremaster series. In the downstairs auditorium the films play nonstop. He has always wanted everything to be seen together. Here...