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...some say unnecessarily invasive - procedure on patients who have failed to respond to 20 minutes of resuscitation and who are moments from clinical death. It's then that new doctors, who often find themselves under pressure to quickly deliver fluids or medication to critically ill patients, practice threading a tube into the patient's femoral vein. This training maneuver is generally performed without a patient's or family's consent or knowledge, and its proponents argue that performing the same technique on a cadaver doesn't give doctors the same real-life exposure. Of course, as the procedure's detractors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Journal Questions Doctors Training in Vein | 12/30/1999 | See Source »

Many of them won't even have to open a Web browser to go shopping. Internet-ready cell phones already have e-commerce capabilities. Sony's latest terminal for WebTV offers split-screen shopping, so you can buy Christmas gifts without taking your eyes off the tube. Excite@Home's broadband cable service will launch an undertaking next year that lets you instantaneously buy the products you see advertised. Say you're watching a Pizza Hut ad when an animated stuffed-crust pizza floats across the screen; two clicks of the remote, and it's heading to your door. Excite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FutureShop: Web-Free Shopping | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Five-year-old boys need lots of attention, and little Elian Gonzalez has been getting plenty since Thanksgiving morning, when fishermen found him lashed to an inner tube off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The boy and his mother Elizabet had fled their Cuban town of Cardenas three days before, along with 12 companions, in a small aluminum motorboat, which sank in heavy seas, drowning Elizabet and 10 of the others. After drifting for two days, Elian was rescued in good condition and is being cared for by relatives in Miami. But he cries out at night, fearing that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War over a Poster Boy | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...current song is a group of several females surrounding a single male, blasting out their Divinyls' interpretation off-key. I think I recognize the mobbed male, but am not sure where the face is from. Section? No...Winthrop Dining Hall...No. As I watch a girl in a silver tube top aggressively explore the young man's lower-half, it hits me: Matthew R. Cordell, FM photography editor, who only hours before begged off the task of accompanying me on my journey tonight, sending instead his friend Tad. Tad, meanwhile, continues to play the role of photographer, snapping shots...

Author: By Lisa J. Powell, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Just Can't Get Enough: One Night, 15 Parties | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

...some time now. The anti-Castro camp is fighting to keep Elian Gonzalez, who turned six Monday, from being reunited with his father in Cuba, after his mother and stepfather died when their vessel went down on the journey from Cuba. Elian, who was found clinging to an inner tube, was placed with relatives in Florida, and anti-Castro activists have showered him with toys and urged that he be allowed to stay to enjoy the freedom he'd be denied in Cuba. The almost soap-operatic human dimension of the story of a boy separated from his natural father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Six-Year-Old's Plight Is a Gift to Havana | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

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