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...crush of numbers means that the RML is sometimes forced to have patients share beds. "For a short period only," Dr. Chaturvedi says, looking slightly sheepish. "But it happens." A tour of the emergency and outpatient departments brings the problem into stark relief: the crowds of patients and visiting relatives are as thick and suffocating as the heady fug of chloroform and the sounds of children screaming. A few cases on trolley beds wait outside under a small awning. Though generally well kept, "it's very hard to maintain cleanliness even if you clean every half an hour," says...
...years," says Cody Tubbs, Elk Grove's interim city manager, "we think we will be the medical hub of South Sacramento County." Those efforts, plus the sharp reduction in housing prices, have created a new surge of interest in Elk Grove. The last residence we see on our tour is a 2,067-sq.-ft. (192 sq m) A-frame with four bedrooms and three baths for $282,000, down from $510,000 in February 2006. By the time we get back to the agent's office, it has 12 offers...
...piece. In 1953 he died in a plane crash at 31. All that remained were his legend and a handful of recordings. Then in 2004 a trove of new Kapell performances surfaced, recorded at home by Australian department-store salesman Roy Preston from radio broadcasts of Kapell's final tour. A selection of those recordings is now being released in a two-disc set, WILLIAM KAPELL REDISCOVERED. Here, Kapell powerfully revisits some of his previously recorded repertory, especially Rachmaninoff and Mussorgsky, and displays a deepening mastery of Bach, Mozart, Chopin and Debussy. Preston, alas, was no audio engineer; his recordings...
Modern China and Japan have never been close. There's just been too much history between the two countries. But ties have improved lately and Beijing's Olympic torch made its tour of Nagano City without much incident last week (unlike a later, tumultuous journey through South Korea). But now, just as Tokyo is about to welcome Chinese President Hu Jintao on a relatively extended state visit, a strange omen has occured: Ling Ling, the only panda that China has given rather than loaned to Japan, has died...
...panda. (Japan has eight pandas on loan from China.) The sad passing of Ling Ling could thus become an opportunity for the Chinese President to dramatically improve ties between Tokyo and Beijing. He is already getting the full VIP treatment during his May 6 to 10 tour. Hu will meet with Fukuda, then with the Emperor and Empress, and visit Yokohama's Chinatown as well as the historic city of Nara and the financial center of Osaka. Symbolically, it is already an important trip: it is Hu's first overseas trip since the 17th National Congress confirmed him as President...