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...intensive-care units, big, immaculate rooms with stainless-steel-and-glass machines called Ohio beds, which cradled the premature infants. They were miniature people whose arms bristled with a series of tubes and needles going to a bank of computer screens and monitors. In a few cases, the infants thrive in that controlled, constricted environment, designed to give them the best chance to live. But most do not make it. They spend their brief existence in a sterile world, devoid of any real warmth or affection, a world filled with pain and discomfort. In my own view, the odds just...
...credit to his dedicated staff of 1,200 "racehorse types" who hire on for less and work hard. They have reason to: on the average, People Express workers own $20,000 worth of stock in the company. The onetime schoolteachers, anthropologists and art historians recruited by Burr seem to thrive in a company that has no secretaries or plush offices, and whose chief financial officer, Robert McAdoo, helps serve coffee on some flights. Says McAdoo: "We're all in this together...
Hearst/ABC 's ARTS is devoting 75 minutes to a leisurely documentary on Caravaggio. HBO and Showtime make capital out of new movies, and the nationwide "superstations" beam Greta Garbo and John Wayne to more than 25 million homes. The local independent channels thrive on TV reruns: you can catch Mary Tyler Moore every night and M-A-S-H ten times a week. On the 24-hr. Cable Health Network, a psychiatrist is either preventing or precipitating a woman's emotional collapse. On an ad hoc network formed by Mobil Oil, the Royal Shakespeare Company revives Nicholas Nickleby...
...packed Agassiz Theater, Lear addressed a crowd of about 250 on the symposium topic, "Survive or Thrive: Can Quality Find Success in Television." Joining Lear were several prominent drama experts, including Robert S. Brustein, professor of En- glish and director of the Loeb Drama Center...
...northeast U.S. and in Canada and northern Europe, it is reducing lakes, rivers and ponds to eerily crystalline, lifeless bodies of water, killing off everything from indigenous fish stocks to microscopic vegetation. It is suspected of spiriting away mineral nutrients from the soil on which forests thrive. Its corrosive assault on buildings and water systems costs millions of dollars annually. It may also pose a substantial threat to human health, principally by contaminating public drinking water. Says Canada's Minister of the Environment John Roberts: "Acid rain is one of the most devastating forms of pollution imaginable, an insidious...