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...Brockton, Mass., child swallowed an overdose of Tylenol and suffered seizures. Doctors predicted death. But her family prayed to her eponym, a martyred Carmelite nun named Teresa Benedicta of the Cross; and a week later little Benedicta toddled out of the hospital, carrying a balloon and pushing the elevator button herself. Now 14, she is on her school swim team. The Roman Catholic Church saw her recovery as a miracle, and last Sunday, Teresa Benedicta (1891-1942) was scheduled to be canonized...
...Greenspan wasn't done running. He cut rates again on Thursday without waiting for the next Fed meeting, a dramatic move that caught Wall Street off guard. It was almost unprecedented in Greenspan's term as helmsman of the U.S. economy. If the Fed has a big red panic button, this was it: Clearly Father Greenback had seen something that couldn't wait for November 15. But what...
...that was easy. But the benefits of computerizing some nurse's duties are literally incalculable. Instead of writing charts by hand, a nurse can now type data into a computer. Or a nurse can press a button on a computer connected to the heart monitor of a patient down the hall and get up-to-the-second readings on heart rate, blood pressure and temperature without leaving her station. Yet the hospital has not reduced its nursing staff. Instead, nurses who once spent 60% of their time doing paperwork now spend that 60% at bedsides, giving patients personal attention. Sick...
...tape, with videos of baboons copulating during prime time and Tom Synder on at 12:30 a.m. (the lowest-rated of SCTV's programs). Again, some would ask why I need to have this done for me-why, as a Harvard student, I can't just push the 'off' button even when Suddenly Susan is on. Fools. As if having the self-control to make it to and through this academic furnace meant I had the willpower to do something as important as turn off the television. You might as well trust me enough to walk into Quincy without stealing...
...happy about the blurring of thedistinction between the public and the privatespheres," he says. "I think almost all Americans,including almost all journalists I know, wouldpush the rewind button on life and go back a yearand beg the President to settle the Paula Jonescase...