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Malone, 52, takes the Royal College of Nursing's top job in June, bringing American panache and Clinton-era compassion to the dowdy British trade union. Some critics objected to the choice of a Yank, but no one doubts her credentials. She has led the American Nurses Association and was a top Clinton health-care adviser. Times are tough for the R.C.N.'s 330,000 members. Pay raises are tiny despite a shortage of 22,000 nurses...
...There's an old joke about a Yankee who comes down South and drops into a country store," he says. "Something comes up about the Civil War, and he says, 'When is the South going to get over that?' The guy tells him, 'When it's over.' So the Yank says, 'What would you call what happened at Appomattox Court House? And the Southerner says, 'Longest cease-fire in history...
...deal. Earlier, Fox Television had made noises about taking the series to its sister network Fox, which would have been a clear example of self-serving synergy that would have made other networks unlikely ever to buy a show from Fox again. (Why do it if they'll yank the series once it becomes a hit?) But Fox's parent company is also closing a deal to buy several UPN affiliate stations, and the scuttlebutt is it may ultimately want a piece of UPN itself, all of which, The WB's brass claimed, made for dirty pool...
...girls have had to grow up quickly. Melinda Basilan started working the strip stage at the Tahitian Queen when she was 16 years old. Now, she has two children. Stephanie is three, and her father is English. John Michael is two; his father is an American from Georgia. The Yank has promised to visit in May, but no one in the dirt alley is holding his breath. Checkpoint is filled with mothers waiting for fathers who never come back...
Some physicians wonder why it would be tried at all. "Theoretically, if you pressed hard enough on the thyroid, you possibly could affect secretion," says Dr. Yank Coble, an endocrinologist at the University of Florida. "But it's pretty rare. And the adrenal glands are carefully protected above the kidneys deep inside the body. To my knowledge, there is no evidence that you can manipulate the adrenals with body positions. That...