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...World of Widener. Where to go and what to do in America's third largest library. How the new computerized checkout system works. Come with us on a tour of the X-section--skeleton in Widener's stacks. And meet the Widener girls...
...actors could suggest; and the landscape of Sardinia is astonishing, a scene of Pre-Cambrian catastrophe. On every side great ridges of bare rock burst out of the earth, leap up to the sky, fall back in fragments. Seen from a summit, the whole island resembles a titanic skeleton over which man wanders like...
...toward socialized medicine and an unwarranted invasion of the privacy be tween doctor and patient. Despite a number of possibly preventable deaths, and two doctors held for questioning, there was so far no real case against the medical profession for "fatal negligence," thanks largely to the service degarde - a skeleton service set up in major hospitals to handle medical emergencies. It worked so well that many Belgians were wondering if the country really needed as many doctors...
Hundreds of striking medics streamed across Belgium's borders for "extended vacations" in neighboring Luxembourg, France and Germany. Those who stayed home left their phones off the hook or linked them to tape recordings that informed callers where emergency service was available. Skeleton crews of doctors at central exchanges diagnosed ailments and prescribed treatment over the phone. Military hospitals also opened their wards to civilians, while corporation doctors, few of whom joined the strikers, doubled up in overcrowded hospitals and clinics...
BRUSSELS, Belgium, April 7--With hospitals jammed to overflowing, Belgium's 12,000 striking doctors and dentists threatened tonight to call off skeleton emergency services they have operated since their strike began seven days...