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When Brazil broke loose from Portugal, its currency was called the real (ray-ahl). After a decade of independence, the government had to proclaim a new unit of currency, awkwardly named the milreis (mill-rayss), meaning a thousand reals. Now, after many more rounds of inflation, the basic currency unit is the cruzeiro (crew-zay-roo), and inflation is shriveling it too. Its present exchange value is a small fraction of a cent. The 1,000-cruzeiro bill, long Brazil's biggest bank note, is worth only a little more than...
Nineteen of the high schoolers are enrolled in intensive (eight-unit) courses in Physics, Chemistry, elementary Greek, German, Spanish, and intermediate Russian, Arabic, Latin and French. Courses in Anthropology, Psychology, Mathematics, and Philosophy are also popular with the high school students...
Growing Pains. The unit takes care of the traditional run of daytime emergencies. Every patient is seen by a doctor-either a medical or surgical resident-regardless of how minor his complaint may seem. After 4 p.m., when the regular outpatient clinics are closed, business flourishes. This is when Dr. Kennedy's definition of an emergency is proved true. As night deepens, there are proportionately more problems presented by hypochondriacs, alcoholics and potential suicides. New York Hospital's emergency traffic runs to more than 25,000 patients a year...
...four has lost any income despite the fact that all of them now enjoy regular hours and scheduled vacations. For the patient, a trip to the emergency room is like the first visit to a private clinic; the doctors might well be the family physicians of a group practice unit. The difference is that in the Alexandria emergency room, each patient is seen and treated only once for each "emergency." If he needs further treatment, he is referred back to his own doctor if he has one, helped to find one if he hasn't. For any treatment...
...some air conditioning. Central air conditioning will go into 375,000 homes this year, 20% more than in 1962. Half of all the buyers are families earning less than $10,000 a year. Though central air conditioning costs about $1,300 v. $140 to $290 for bedroom units, the industry has convinced many that the central units last longer, reduce both allergies and housework by filtering out pollen and dust. In office buildings, the trend is toward the central "zonal" unit controlled separately by each tenant...