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These are the families whose entire household budgets shudder when the price of gasoline rises a dime a gallon; whose sons and daughters join the Army to pay for their schooling; whose jobs are most vulnerable when the economy crawls toward recession...
When emergency rooms and trauma centers shut down, either permanently or temporarily, the impact sends a shudder throughout the entire medical system. Though patients may be able to choose where they go to have brain surgery, they cannot choose where to have a heart attack, or crash their car, or stumble into cross fire. "The hospitals don't just close their doors to poor people," says Virginia Price-Hastings, director of Los Angeles' trauma hospital programs. "When they're closed, they're closed to everyone." Furthermore, if hospital beds are filled with emergency patients, doctors cannot schedule elective surgeries like...
This may be an idea whose time has not yet come, but it is worth thinking about. American Government officials shudder when they do so. They would prefer to rely on traditional diplomacy aimed at defusing regional tensions and restricting the proliferation of nuclear technology. The trouble is, the Iraqi weapons program is moving along much more briskly than the peace process. Some experts predict that Saddam will achieve his heart's desire within three years. When that happens, the U.S. President had better have something more to say than "Well, we tried...
...many Europeans the inhuman crimes of the Third Reich are as vivid as yesterday. The very word German can cause a shudder; some are convinced that history could repeat itself. Conor Cruise O'Brien, the Irish academic, has a preposterously anachronistic vision: "In the new, proud, united Germany, the nationalists will proclaim the Fourth Reich. I can see some of the consequences: expulsion of Jews, breaking off of relations with Israel, a military mission to the Palestine Liberation Organization, a statue of Hitler in every town...
...swept by nomadic tribes from Central Asia. The first known invaders were the fierce Scythians, who swarmed in from the east around 700 B.C., driving out the resident Cimmerians. The Greek historian Herodotus, who lived for a time in the Black Sea trading post of Olbia, wrote with a shudder that the Scythians' customs "are not such as I admire." Among them: human sacrifice, blinding of slaves and drinking from the skulls of fallen enemies. Still stronger tribes kept invading and conquering this region that is now the Ukraine: first the Sarmatians; then, in Roman times, the Goths and Huns...