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...unusual--to deal with clients in other time zones. They have all honed their techniques for avoiding jet lag and fatigue as they travel from the Colorado office to other U.S. locations, like Hawaii, or to Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia to meet with vendors and train new franchisees who sell the company's high-end gift baskets. But that isn't enough for CEO Cynthia McKay. She believes that good sleep means good business, and she has made it part of her company's workplace culture. In one of two designated sleep areas in Le Gourmet's offices, employees...
...call room at Harlem Hospital. One night, the phone in that room rang and I was told to come down to the Emergency Room fast. They had a 16-year-old boy there who was bleeding to death; his leg had been run over by a subway train. He was, the voice said before hanging up, a token sucker...
...give. His right foot was mangled-bits of sneaker mixed in with clotted blood, bone, cartilage and tendon. His left leg was hanging by skin. The jagged stump of his tibia stuck out just below the knee-pretty much what you would expect from the wheel of a subway train. Even in Harlem, this was pretty...
...could ride the subway for free, or sell it to someone for something less than a dollar. This was, of course, illegal. My patient had been spotted doing it. He had run, the cops had chased, and he had crossed the track just in front of an oncoming train, but then...he tripped...
...Monday, barely past 1 p.m., Valencia's Line 1 subway train derailed right under the city's downtown, crashed against the inside walls, and slid outside the tracks for 100 meters before coming to a deadly halt. Inside, 41 people lay dead. According to the train's black box, the convoy entered the curve that leads to the Jesus station at 80 km/h, double the speed limit. The regional transportation minister, Jos? Ram?n Garc?a Ant?n said that "the machinist must have suffered some sort of unconsciousness or problem," adhering to the official line that only human factor was to blame...