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...stayed on because of who he was. The hospital ate the bill for about $10,000.'' Helen L. Scanlan of Arlington, Texas, fumes, ''I am outraged with Mrs. Clinton. Doesn't she realize that some other patients will end up paying for this?'' John A. Parkins of Oakmont, Pennsylvania, comments, ''The hospital isn't 'eating' the bill. Every person who pays St. Vincent's is covering it.'' St. Vincent's will neither confirm nor deny the $10,000 figure, noting that financial information regarding patients is privileged, but, the hospital says, swallowing charges beyond what Medicare will...
...grapple with the difficult task of deciding just how the shuttle fits into the long-term goals of the U.S. space program. Until the shuttle has a clearly defined and widely accepted mission, finding the funds is likely to remain a thorny political problem on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue...
...years since the Dallas crash, other wind-shear accidents have cost passenger lives. Two unsolved crashes in Pennsylvania and North Carolina have been tentatively attributed to wind shear that might have been avoided with Doppler radar. After a USAir flight crashed in Charlotte, North Carolina, in July 1994, the NTSB said the delay in installing the radar had cost the lives of 37 onboard. Charlotte was supposed to get the radar system in early 1993. As an airport in the South (where wind shear is particularly common), it was No. 5 on the FAA list. But the inevitable delays...
...NTSB was especially keen to have the boxes installed on Boeing 737s. Investigations of two accidents involving B-737s--one outside Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1991 and the other in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1994--have been seriously hampered by the lack of this information. Instead of pressing the airlines to find an economical way to install new black boxes and instead of sending its own investigators to challenge the airlines' assessment of the cost, the FAA simply embraced the carriers' argument that the project would be too pricey...
...over; breast-fed babies stop eating when they are full. The American Academy of Pediatrics has stated that breast-feeding is a way to lower a child's risk of becoming overweight, along with increasing child activity, monitoring growth and promoting healthy eating patterns. Nikki Lee, R.N., Elkins Park, Pennsylvania...