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...nurses who wrote us about the report, Linda Emery Evans respects the skill of nurses even though she had a narrow escape while under an R.N.'s care. "Within hours of the birth of my daughter last spring, I was in unspeakable pain," wrote Evans, 34. "I was unable to convince the nurse that I was experiencing something more than postpartum pain." After hours of pleading, Evans was operated on for internal bleeding. "I think the nurse was not really listening to what I was telling her," she says. "She may have been overworked. But I can only imagine...
Hoping to dodge his devils, Devlin pursues a second skill. He is a Tae Kwon Do adept, and though he is white, middle aged and middle class, he opens a gym to teach this Korean martial art in Baltimore's black ghetto. This is both inspiration and folly, redoubled because he encourages his 17-year-old daughter, who also knows Tae Kwon Do, to help out. The neighborhood's young black drug dealers are pragmatists, eager to learn the fighting discipline for self-protection when they are sent to prison. Devlin, an idealist trying shakily not to unravel, commits...
...offensive linemen probably have come to grips with the fact that they will never receive the credit they deserve; only the blame when they blow an assignment. The people who do get the glory are the "skill-position" players, headlined, of course, by the quarterbacks...
...campaign after the media disclosed his $200-per- hour toe-sucking escapades, others in the Clinton camp said there would be no replacement because Clinton was his own best political strategist. The more skeptical may have considered this spin control by his campaign; it was not. Clinton's only skill is politics, but it is some skill. Arkansas has 75 counties and more than 5,000 voting precincts; Clinton knew the demography and politics of every one of them. On drives through the state with friends, he liked to tell them the vote counts he got from each precinct...
...Donnelly. "The ABL is betting that if 35,000 people will come to see a game, many more will watch it on television." For fans who don't believe a game without the men's flash and speed is worth watching, the league is offering its player's skill, teamwork, and finesse. "People are skeptical because the male players have set a certain standard," says Donnelly. "And some people don't believe the women can match up. But the women are playing the same game, just at a different level." Mark Coatney