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...crucial part of his plan was to immediately move all of his patients down to subterranean levels, two levels below the earth's surface. It took a lot of shuffling to turn a radiology waiting room into a maternity ward, an MRI scanner space into a recovery room and a heart catheterization laboratory into a neonatal intensive care unit. Nurses there are working furiously to keep a 600 gm. baby girl alive, along with 1.2 kg. twin boys...
...general," says psychologist Daniel Shaw of the University of Pittsburgh, "parents serve the same big-picture role as doctors on grand rounds. Siblings are like the nurses on the ward. They're there every day." All that proximity breeds an awful lot of intimacy--and an awful lot of friction...
...Ward Serrill's feel-good doc, which covers seven years in the life of Resler's Roughriders, is hobbled by a narration so syrupy, it could be poured on pancakes. But the movie soars because of the sport's natural drama (every game seems to come down to a last, desperate shot) and its luck in finding a complex heroine. Darnellia Russell, the rare black girl on a white team, has dimples, drive and enough problems to fill an afterschool special. The film can't help touching on issues of race, child abuse and teen pregnancy, even...
...Saturday's slaughter - the worst single incident since March 1995, when five people were murdered in a Ninth Ward home - brought the year's homicide tally to 52. After a long lull in violent crime following Hurricane Katrina, the murder rate in New Orleans and its suburbs has been rising as more residents return to the area and the repopulation of flooded neighborhoods continues...
...Saturday's slaughter - the worst single incident since March 1995, when five people were murdered in a Ninth Ward home - brought the year's homicide tally to 52. After a long lull in violent crime following Hurricane Katrina, the murder rate in New Orleans and its suburbs has been rising as more residents return to the area and the repopulation of flooded neighborhoods continues...