Word: took
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...Johnson returned to the hospital the same day because her baby wouldn't feed. She says hospital personnel then took the ID band off the baby. The baby was admitted for three days, during which time the other baby was still in the hospital...
...Johnson says that when she was discharged from the hospital, the baby she took home was weighed at 7 lbs., 12 oz. But just after birth her child had weighed 9 lbs., 6 oz. Babies often shed a few ounces in the hours after birth, but not 17% of their body weight. Hospital chief of staff Dr. Thomas Massaro admits the hospital can't explain why the large discrepancy went unnoticed. "We don't understand that," he says, though he is virtually positive there was no accidental switch in this case. "We have very good documentation that the band...
...Geoffrey Fieger pressed his way backstage for a private chat with Jackson, he looked almost humble. Jackson greeted Michigan's aspiring Governor warmly, whispered something in his ear and then strode out to the pulpit. Fieger was pleased. He swaggered out and took a place in the audience, awaiting a few words of praise from the reverend. But Jackson only issued the terse acknowledgment that the "Democratic nominee for this state" was present, and asked Fieger to stand--without bothering to mention his name. "I guess he didn't want to try to pronounce Geoffrey," a deflated, sarcastic Fieger mumbled...
...record of success is not very good. Out of 24 major attacks on American targets since Iranian fundamentalists seized the Tehran embassy in 1979, only eight ever ended in arrest and trial, and three of those eight assaults took place in the U.S. Only once, when Libya was blamed for the 1986 bombing of a German discotheque, did the U.S. retaliate militarily. But persistence has paid off: the Palestinian who set a bomb on a Pan Am jet that killed one person in 1982 was finally turned over to American courts in June. The U.S. has also developed extensive...
That's the official story. Perhaps more to the point is that back in the 1960s, NASA was a place for heroes. Every time men rocketed into space, they took a greater risk than on their previous flight, reached for a more audacious and dangerous goal--and almost always succeeded. But after the four extraordinary years between 1968 and 1972, when the U.S. was sending crews to the moon, the agency retreated to the familiar backwaters of near Earth orbit. Aside from a few high notes like the Hubble-telescope repair mission and the horror of the Challenger explosion, human...