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Dates: during 1990-1999
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All these efforts are laudable, but unless they are universally adopted, patients will continue to die--not through gross negligence or incompetence but through plain human error. "This is a wake-up call," says Arthur Levin, director of the Center for Medical Consumers, based in New York City, and a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doctors' Deadly Mistakes | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

If it had been anyone else who stood up to Private Calvin Glover about his outrageous, macho bragging that summer night, things might have turned out differently. But it may have been just too humiliating to be challenged by Private First Class Barry Winchell, of all people. Glover was in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Do People Have To Push Me Like That? | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

Until 1994, when the Clinton Administration imposed the doctrine of "Don't ask, don't tell," gays had been barred, at least in theory, from military service. Under the new rules, endorsed by Congress, commanders cannot ask about a soldier's sexual orientation without specific evidence of homosexual conduct. And...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Do People Have To Push Me Like That? | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

It was a forward-looking plan that Zacarias, 70, didn't have the clout to enact. He wasn't popular enough--the school board recently bought out his contract after a bitter power struggle--but even fellow reformers think his plan was too much, too soon. Says board member David...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slowing Down a Quick Fix | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

The place that rescued Anita and her kids that day was the Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery, which opened in 1983 as a haven where parents on the edge could leave their children for as many as three days at a stretch, at no charge. From the start, it had a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Safe Place to Be Till The Folks Calm Down | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

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