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...Lucie Blackman hated it all when she first arrived. The hours. The pressure to go out on dohans. She had worked for two years on BA's long-haul routes to Africa and the Americas, but she had seldom been away from her family home - where she still lived with her mother and younger sister and brother - in the London suburb of Sevenoaks, Kent, for more than four days in a row. After arriving in Tokyo, she phoned and e-mailed family almost daily, telling them she was homesick...
...That's when the public got its first good look at Kim, as dozens of reporters and photographers staked out Narita airport for a glimpse of the seldom-seen son of the Dear Leader. As he trudged across the tarmac, Kim turned out to be a pudgy man in glasses, brown vest, Rolex watch and gold rings?bearing a striking, if somewhat more modern, resemblance to Kim Jong Il. In South Korea, some suggested he looked like his grandfather Kim Il Sung...
...perfect world, parents would draw up wills with careful guidelines for their kids, removing some of the critical decision making at a time of shock and grief. Alas, that's seldom the case. Realtor Bernard Strong, 47, of Atlanta, was already devastated at the age of 20 by his mother's tragic death in a car accident. No sooner had he returned to college than he learned his father had suffered a severe heart attack; his father died in his sleep 18 months later. "When that happened," Bernard admits, "I was about to check...
...industry's holy grail, though today just 10% to 15% of all charts are electronic. Their appeal is obvious. It costs about $9 every time a doctor pulls a chart, which is often incomplete. When a patient arrives at an emergency room or calls a doctor, there is seldom time to consult his documented medical history. In the event of a drug recall, wading through stacks of files to find patients at risk isn't an option...
...most surprising pitching performance of the day belonged to junior Chaney Sheffield. The seldom-used pitcher closed out the game for Harvard, picking up his first save his career and allowing only one run in four innings...