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...study at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover, New Hampshire, five years ago proved the point. Dr. Mark P. Yeager randomly divided 53 intensive-care patients into two groups. One received morphine by ordinary intravenous catheters, while the other had morphine delivered epidurally, through a catheter placed near the spinal cord. The epidural patients, who were virtually pain-free, spent an average of just 2.5 days in the intensive- care unit and a total of 11.4 days in the hospital, while the other group required 5.7 days in the ICU and 15.8 days of hospitalization. In dollars, the difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Less Pain, More Gain | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

...From Chuck Yeager: a $225 belt buckle

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attention Shoppers | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

...values, courage and also a kind of competence and leadership." Bantam has a track record with such inspirational life stories. In 1984 it scored a success with Lee Iacocca's autobiography (2.6 million hard-cover sales in the U.S. and Canada), and it had another in 1985 with Chuck Yeager's right-stuff memoirs (1.2 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stormin' Norman: The Book | 7/8/1991 | See Source »

...paralyzed from the chest down in a diving accident 19 years ago. After logging 85,000 miles in one of these vans, Krauthammer just bought a customized $53,000 Dodge Caravan designed by Les Schofield of San Antonio's International Mobility Products. Krauthammer calls Schofield the "Chuck Yeager of rehab technology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Machines That Work Miracles | 2/18/1991 | See Source »

...December, an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 with 104 passengers and six crew aboard was forced to land at Yeager Airport in Charleston, W.Va., after a 14-inch hole opened in its fuselage at 31,000 feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 16 Passengers Killed as Plane Rips Open | 2/25/1989 | See Source »

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