Word: shifts
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...nurses, plus technicians, social workers and paramedics, employed by roughly 5,700 emergency departments nationwide. Last year they treated 90 million patients for everything from hangnails to heart attacks. In the busiest hospitals, emergency-room personnel minister to an average of 200 patients in a single, brutal twelve-hour shift, while stretchers stack up in the waiting rooms, hallways and even closets. Staffers eat large meals before going on duty, since there will be no breaks once they start. They treat wounds they hoped never to see outside a war zone: it is to Los Angeles, which had more automatic...
...speed while chatting lightly and irreverently. You have to think of M*A*S*H." Mark Richards hopped into Los Angeles County Fire Department trucks with correspondent James Willwerth to accompany a paramedic team around Los Angeles County. Says Richards: "These guys see more of life on one shift than I ever imagined...
Scientists have known for a while that it is the shifting of tectonic plates that produces earthquakes. What scientists should be grateful to learn is that the reason the plates shift is that somebody is playing the piano accordion. Tectonic plates are very sensitive: they cannot abide the sound of accordion playing, and when they hear all that caterwauling, they shift uncomfortably, jolting the Richter scale to A above high C. It is no coincidence that earthquakes occur wherever huge numbers of accordion players congregate. Many of them are said to be aswarm in eastern China, where earthquakes are common...
...fact, there is a slight shift in library priorities. During the '80s the emphasis was on restoration. Gregorian liked to call the main building the "people's palace"; the library became perhaps the city's most fashionable benefit cause. But, reflecting the Bush era, the new buzz word is education, the province of the branches. "Essentially, we serve grammar school and junior high kids," says Healy, "and the agenda is not what you read but that you read...
That untidiness is symbolic of a major shift in farming methods that is working its way across the nation's breadbasket. Reason: an emerging consensus that agriculture as it has long been practiced in the U.S. is a threat to the land and its future productivity...