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Medical-equipment manufacturers such as Hill-Rom of Batesville, Ind., and Kinetic Concepts of San Antonio, Texas, rent and sell everything from heavy-duty commodes and wheelchairs to mechanized beds that can hold 500 lbs. to 1,000 lbs., help turn patients and feature air-circulation mattress systems to help prevent bedsores. The market for bed surfaces and accessories alone is estimated to be $150 million a year and is growing 15% annually. "As the obesity epidemic grows, so does our revenue," says Lynne Sly, vice president of marketing at Kinetic Concepts. Rental rates are steep...
...parents who let their infant children sleep in the same bed with them doing their babies more harm than good? It's an old question that still nags many parents. But a new study shows that the practice among American families is on the rise. The study, led by Marian Willinger of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, found that the percentage of infants who usually sleep in a bed with parents or a caregiver more than doubled from 1993 to 2000, from 5.5% to 12.8%. Nearly 50% of infants in the study spent some time...
Junior Wendy A. Carman of Tacoma, Wash., was sleeping in her bed when the fire broke out shortly before...
...Happiness may be an American doctrine, but it also triggers images of a blinkered, Father Knows Best '50s and of TV news anchors grinning through the latest report of troop movements or a lagging economy. To the army of skeptics, happiness is forgetting that a billion people go to bed hungry each night. Happiness is being too shallow to realize how miserable you should be. It's cocooning yourself from reality. When displayed wantonly in public, it is the cause of other people's unhappiness. Happiness, the argument goes, is abnormal--can it be cured...
...January, 10 of these unlikely crusaders gather around the bed in Su's bare-walled house to recount their misfortunes. Wang Hao displays a pile of photographs of houses rent apart at the seams. Zu Youming reads from a handwritten sheet listing the times he's been rebuffed by local officials. On the bed lies a petition with red thumbprints beside each signature. Suddenly, from below the house comes the startling sound of exploding dynamite. Su's home heaves upward and his windows rattle. "Don't worry," says the bathhouse owner. "That's just the miners, back from their lunch...