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...diaper, his toy legs sometimes kicking and his left hand resting on an ECG sensor just above his hiccuping diaphragm. A cloth shield protects his eyes. His diet, called "hyperalimentation," runs through an intravenous catheter to his umbilical artery. A nurse, who cares for two such children, checks his vital signs every two hours. On a piece of tape holding an endotracheal tube to his cheek, one of the nurses has written...
...experts are also looking closely at airports. Pilots consider U.S. airports to be safe overall because local authorities have the money to install proper lighting and landing and navigation aids. Problems are greater at fields in the less developed nations of Africa and South America, which often cannot afford vital equipment. Nonetheless, flyers have raised objections to practices at some U.S. locations. The Airline Pilots Association has asked Los Angeles officials to stop allowing planes to take off with the wind, a practice the group considers dangerous. It argues that the procedure may make it harder for the aircraft...
...dresses too well, and this reminds him of Dicky Cruyer's kind: "The public-school senior staff at London Central spent just as much money on their Savile Row suits' and handmade shirts and Jermyn Street shoes, but they wore them with a careless scruffiness that was a vital part of their snobbery. A real English gentleman never tries; that was the article of faith." His complaints about silly and selfish women, notably Fiona's vacant sister and Volkmann's troublemaking wife, also deserve to be heard. But when all this grouchiness becomes the dominant element in the novel...
...modernistic annex to the baroque mansion, the two delegations will take their places at a long table, with Kampelman flanked by two colleagues on the U.S. team, former Texas Senator John Tower and Diplomat Maynard Glitman. After an exchange of pleasantries, the negotiators will plunge into the tedious yet vital business of seeking reductions in Intercontinental and intermediate-range nuclear arms, as well as establishing ground rules for the development of exotic antimissile devices such as those proposed in Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars, plan...
...stability, officials said, had been badly shaken by the tactics of South Africa, which completely surrounds Lesotho. Less than two miles away, at the Caledon River Bridge, which stands between the two countries, South African police and military were conducting security searches that severely restricted the daily flow of vital supplies into Lesotho. The beleaguered country appealed to the U.S. and other Western nations to organize an airlift. "We are a hostage country," said Information Minister Desmond Sixishe. "I wish South Africa would pick on someone its own size...