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...even if that doesn't happen, an ominous question remains: What, if anything, does this unnerving spate of extreme weather signify? Is it just a meteorological fluke, a one-season anomaly? Or could it signal a potentially devastating long-term trend? Atmospheric scientist William Gray of Colorado State University fears the answer is the latter...
...billion in spending cuts that hit Medicare, Medicaid and social services heavily. Action now moves to the appropriations committees where,TIME's Karen Tumultyreports, "the real work is already being done." The triumphant GOP package, she adds, falls short of promises by Kasich and others to eliminate a spate of federal agencies and offer $300 billion in tax cuts. The current plan would, however, abolish the Commerce Department...
...might breach the quarantine. Says Cornaille Mbala, a senior nurse at Kinshasa's Mama Yemo Hospital: "When this sickness hits you, you die in one week. Of course we are all afraid." And around the world, but especially in the U.S., people sensitized to Ebola's horrors by a spate of books and movies-Richard Preston's chilling best seller The Hot Zone; the TV movie Robin Cook's 'Virus'; the film Outbreak, starring Dustin Hoffman-wondered nervously whether the disease would spread out of Africa...
Lehman's case is just one of a spate of medical foul-ups that have made headlines in recent weeks. In two Florida incidents, a doctor amputated the wrong foot of a diabetic man, and a hospital worker mistakenly turned off a stroke victim's breathing machine. In Michigan a surgeon doing a mastectomy removed a woman's healthy breast instead of the diseased one. Are these isolated, if horrifying, events? Or could they be harbingers of a deadly trend? Though no statistical evidence shows that malpractice is on the rise, state licensing boards have stepped up their investigations...
Liston acquitted himself much more convincingly in the debates than Fine, but he was responsible for a spate of misconduct during his terms as vice-president last year. Liston showed incompetence in keeping up with the duties of his job, including the expulsion of truant council members...