Word: wente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...middle of the chaos, positioned himself when he got there. But neither Clinton nor U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky was able to avert what must be viewed as a disaster: the WTO representatives' failure to reach agreement on launching the "Millennial Round" of trade talks. The delegates went home empty-handed...
...carnage is a sign of an epic shift in the drug business. From the early 1970s until a couple of years ago, if you went out on the streets of New York City to score cocaine, you'd look for a Colombian trafficker or a Dominican who dealt with a Colombian. Nowadays, you're just as likely to find yourself face-to-face with a Mexican. Your dealer's ethnic roots probably won't matter to you so long as the product is as advertised. But to DEA agents, the decline and fall of Colombia's once impregnable Cali cartel...
Vincent Gargano was lucky--or so he thought. The 42-year-old Chicago postal worker's prostate cancer was detected early, and he responded well to two five-day rounds of chemotherapy at the University of Chicago. On the third and final round, however, things went terribly wrong. Instead of getting 176 g per day of one drug and 39.4 g of another, as prescribed, he was mistakenly given 176 g of the second drug as well--a massive overdose. Within five days Gargano was deaf. Then his kidneys began to fail. Then his liver shut down. And just...
...with lidocaine, a local anesthetic. Except that it wasn't lidocaine; it was adrenaline, a powerful stimulant. A minute later Ben's blood pressure soared, and his heart began to race. Nine minutes later his blood pressure plunged, his heart rate dropped, his lungs filled with fluid, and he went into cardiac arrest. Within hours, Ben Kolb was dead...
...took Haas 3 1/2 weeks to discover what killed the boy, and at that point she went to see Ben's parents and the attorney they had retained. "I told them we had saved the syringes," she says, "and had them tested, and that we accepted full responsibility for the error, and we were very, very sorry." The case was settled that evening...