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...when the National Academy of Sciences released a hot-button study suggesting that roughly 90,000 patients die each year as a result of preventable medical mistakes. Tuesday, President Clinton announced a proposal to make public the errors committed by hospitals. This plan, according to TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson, has teeth. "These changes could become part of a patients' bill of rights," says Thompson. Since the NAS report was released, he adds, Clinton vowed repeatedly to adopt the measures suggested by the academy; almost every NAS recommendation has made it into this blueprint...
...backed the promise with a weather derivative, and with the help of other promotions, saw its Ski-Doo sales in the region jump 38% over the previous year's. "In a market driven 100% by weather, it's a little insurance for us and for the customer," says David Thompson, a Ski-Doo spokesman. This winter, Ski-Doo expanded the offer throughout...
CANDIDATE: John McCain SIDEKICK: Fred Thompson, Senator, actor BLANDLY OBSEQUIOUS QUOTE: "He really is one of the few heroes I know." PREVIOUS SIDEKICK EXPERIENCE: Secondary roles in movies, among them The Hunt for Red October and In the Line of Fire WHAT'S IN IT FOR HIM: Cabinet position MODEL TV DUO: Bo and Luke Duke...
...speed and efficiency of the investigation that has taken place since Alaska Airlines flight 261 spiraled into the Pacific Ocean on January 31 should make white-knuckle fliers feel a little safer. "This is a great aspect of U.S. civil aviation," says TIME Washington correspondent Mark Thompson. "Day one you have an accident, and day 10 you have an MD-80-series airworthiness directive." On Thursday the FAA ordered an "urgent airworthiness directive" for all 1,100 MD-80-series jets similar to the one that went down en route from Mexico to San Francisco. The move follows a deep...
While truly anxiety-prone passengers may find little solace in the FAA's efficiency in the wake of the latest air disaster, at least they can take comfort in one trend. "There's no thread between this and other recent accidents," says Thompson. "Each accident is unique, and when there is a snafu with faulty mechanics, it's fixed pretty quickly...