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...changing Duke as well. In the department of surgery, the faculty once relied exclusively on hospital patients as case studies for teaching residents, but the average number of days that patients spend at Duke has dropped from 8.3 to 6.9 in the past five years. That prompted administrators to scrap plans for a nine-story inpatient addition to the 1,124-bed hospital and opt instead to construct the ambulatory surgery center, completed last June, which houses seven operating rooms for same-day surgery procedures. "We spent hours deciding [on the] best way to involve the residents there, because that...
...makeshift command center in the partly wrecked railway station bus park across from the embassy. Her task: to supervise 215 FBI agents in both capitals, along with explosives experts from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, as they sort through concrete rubble, twisted metal, bits of glass--every scrap of debris that could yield the vital physical evidence that might identify who was responsible for the senseless violence...
Kamikaze Slabbers scurry onto the gunnery at night, hunting bomb remnants to sell as scrap, and a few have blown off limbs with live ammo. Aleksick resents that people sit up there tax free and then run him ragged with service calls, but he says 80% of the Slabbers are decent folk...
...itself. He abhors independent counsels as much as Reno." Burton and Reno may yet come up with a compromise. But Reno has said she simply wants three more weeks to review LaBella's memo before she makes a decision. Far be it for Burton to shy away from a scrap with Reno, Eric Holder or anyone else -- but waiting another three weeks might have saved everyone a lot of fuss...
...answers come erratically, as a scrap of conversation here or a deathbed confession there, and Deane's irregular structure mirrors the gradual unfurling of the family secrets. A series of brief vignettes spanning more than twenty years, unevenly spaced and heavily concentrated in the days of the narrator's extreme youth, reveals information as the narrator learns it, Deane writes with all the immediacy and intrusive intimacy of a diarist, and even the wildest, most implausible developments in the tale seem like mere fact when conveyed in his narrator's steady voice...