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...setting is the pediatrics ward of a Los Angeles charity hospital, where (it hardly needs to be said, since serious fiction seems to have no other topic as our troubled millennium ticks away) civilization is banging and whimpering toward its well-deserved end. The characters are Kraft, a harried, too sensitive surgeon-in-training; Espera, a gallant nurse; and an appalling procession of dying children. The doomed kids arrive by ambulance and taxi, bleeding from gunshot wounds, septic with cancers both physical and psychological, withering from every disease in the manual. Kraft prunes and hacks and catheterizes; Espera listens...
COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, M.M. Merwin, Anna F. Monardo, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...
...this might all fit together.' It put us in a different frame of mind." Out of the assemblage of foresters, biologists, economists, plant and fish experts, geomorphologists, hydrologists and social scientists emerged perhaps the most sophisticated conservation analysis to date. A pioneering effort, says Babbitt. Noted team leader Jack Ward Thomas, chief wildlife biologist at the Department of Agriculture: "We're moving into ecosystem management, which nobody has ever done before...
WRITERS: NORA EPHRON, DAVID S. WARD AND JEFF ARCH...
COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara - Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, M.M. Merwin, Anna F. Monardo, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...