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...those dummies--technically, "medical simulator mannequins"--they have been deployed by the military to train MASH units and are being adapted for civilian emergency medical teams and teaching hospitals. The more sophisticated civilian models, costing $50,000 to $150,000 each, have variable pulses, respiration rates, oxygen saturation counts, pupil dilation and other programmable manifestations of sickness and injury...
...could be named for him. Mr. Roosevelt wrote a warm acceptance to Professor Coolidge, saying lie was "delighted and greatly honored." Mr. Coolidge, to whom the idea had apparently never occurred, found that the terms of the gift made this solution impossible, and was forced to write his former pupil that he had been the victim of a prank
...With her pupil-less eyes, brass breastplate and art-deco winged headpiece, Promethea looks like a combination of Wonder Woman and a 1930s Chrysler hood ornament. Set in a world very like our own, but slightly more technologically advanced - they have hover cars and science villains like "Jellyhead" - Promethea appears when Sophie Bangs, a poetically precocious teenager, channels her from out of the world of imagination. During the first twelve issues Promethea discovers she is the latest in a long line of Prometheas, all of whom materialize through works of an artist. Mixing typical superhero fisticuffs with darker themes...
Adrahtas continues to follow Dov’s progress, talking on the phone with him about once a week and checking his games over the internet. He considers his former pupil the prototype at the backstop position...
...1990s for the first time in the state's history--and its dysfunctional, overcrowded schools look woefully unprepared for that shift. Bush has pushed education reform, assigning A+ to F grades for schools statewide in an effort to raise test scores. Still, Florida ranks 40th in K-12 per-pupil spending. It's a key reason why tax-allergic Floridians have put expensive initiatives for universal pre-K and class-size limits on the Nov. 5 ballot--and why both items are favored in polls. As McBride sees it, the problem for Bush and his conservative legislature is that their...