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...medical profession TV has ever presented. The pace is furious, the narrative jagged and unsettling. Cases are wheeled in and out -- a severed hand, a gunshot wound, a child who has swallowed a key -- and while some are followed to a conclusion of sorts, others disappear without a trace. Yet the episode, directed by Rod Holcomb, is not just a cinema-verite jumble. The characters are fleshed out in a few deft strokes -- one doctor (Anthony Edwards) is being wooed by a cushy private practice -- without hype or sentimentality. These are doctors of stoic demeanor and blunt bedside manner...
...depressed by the death of his father and the recent breakup of his marriage. What's clear is that he had a history of alcohol and drug abuse, and died with a .045 blood-alcohol content, just a smidgen above the legal limit for pilots. His blood also showed trace amounts of cocaine. Relatives said Corder might have had publicity in mind because he once talked admiringly of Mathias Rust's 1987 landing in Red Square. A brother reportedly was told of a suicide plan...
...again, off-again dioxin scare is, well, on-again. An Environmental Protection Agency report says the chemical, in all likelihood, causes cancer and even in trace amounts it may put the immune, reproductive and developmental systems at risk. "We've gone through a period in which the public has pooh-poohed other potential dangers," says TIME senior editor Charles Alexander. "People have said we've over-reacted to alar and radon and asbestos. This report goes against that trend. It says that dioxin really is dangerous...
...just Vietnam and Watergate but rather the fateful turn liberal activism took with Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society. Not content with the great middle-class programs like Medicare, Johnson launched a War on Poverty that has since poured trillions down a vast federal sinkhole, leaving little trace -- indeed coinciding with a dramatic rise in crime, homelessness and deviancy of every sort...
...book gives a detailed account of the family's anti-Semitism and its attachment to Hitler. Even after the war, Wolfgang's mother Winifred said she longed to see the Fuhrer come through the door again. To his credit, Wolfgang ! has banished any trace of anti-Jewish bias from the festival...