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...transfusion tubes, her veins have collapsed. The nurses palpate a threadlike vessel on the child's forehead. She mews like a wounded animal as one tightens a rubber band around her head to raise the vein. Tears pour unnoticed from her mother's eyes as she watches the needle tap-tap at her daughter's temple. Each time the whimpering child lifts a wan hand to brush away the pain, her mother gently lowers it. Drop by drop, the nurses manage to collect 1 cc of blood in five minutes...
Odyssey Investment Partners and First Reserve Corp., a pair of buyout firms, were among the earliest to tap this replenished reservoir to finance a takeover. Last week they agreed to buy Dresser Equipment from oil-services giant Halliburton for $1.6 billion. More of that can't be far behind...
...Unlike dream comics, which have always struck me as little more than curiosities, full of symbols meaningful only to the dreamer, the "Frank" stories have a meditative, hallucinatory feel. (The book is dedicated to Sri Ramakrishna, a 19th-century guru/mystic.) They tap into a universal unconsciousness of archetypes. But ultimately "Frank" tells one story, everyone's story, the same story as life: "How Laughably Absurd...
...very important matter that you actually have to pour beer into a cup instead of opening a tap," Lewis jokes. "This is very big stuff...
...numbers are there. The Treo also solves a common mobile phone irritant. You can look up a number during a call, a function absent from conventional mobiles. Dialing is a snap. Just type in the first few letters of a name, up pops the number from your contact list, tap "Enter." Based on the dual-band GSM standard, the Treo works regionwide except in Japan...