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...other cities, triggering floods and landslides that buried whole neighborhoods in tons of mud. By last week the devastation had left more than 200 people dead and 600 injured. But at least 17 people, some buried for 48 hours, were saved when civil defense teams pumped oxygen through tubes pushed into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Carnival of Mourning | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

...atmosphere may have seemed more like a carnival than a hospital, but health care was still the priority. Oxygen tanks and emergency equipment stood ready in the corners. Department heads and staff members carried walkie-talkies to ensure communication between the two buildings...

Author: By Wendy R. Meltzer, | Title: Moving Day at Children's Hospital | 2/11/1988 | See Source »

...although some children seemed to be just enjoying the ride, the oxygen masks and wheelchairs served as constant reminders that Children's is a hospital...

Author: By Wendy R. Meltzer, | Title: Moving Day at Children's Hospital | 2/11/1988 | See Source »

...premature babies lay inside incubators and did not stop to collect a stuffed animal. But most other patients did. One small girl in a wheelchair peeked out over her oxygen mask, pointed her finger and said clearly, "the purple...

Author: By Wendy R. Meltzer, | Title: Moving Day at Children's Hospital | 2/11/1988 | See Source »

...that of Holly Peters, 24, who was raised in foster homes and worked for a time as a waitress, got married, went broke, lived on the dole. She was so run-down when her son Benjamin was born that he weighed only 4 1/2 lbs.; he survived in an oxygen tent, receiving blood injections. During that hospital stay, he contracted a viral infection that left him partly blind, deaf, hydrocephalic, brain damaged. After three months, the hospital released him and told Holly to give him phenobarbital when he had seizures. She took him to a welfare hotel near Times Square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Not Fair RACHEL AND HER CHILDREN | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

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