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Unlike big governments, small community hospitals cannot run deficits forever. The Copper Queen's shortfall from treating illegal aliens grows each year. This year it will be about $450,000, bringing the total for the past few years to $1.4 million. With each money-losing year, a tiny piece of the 14-bed hospital dies. When that happens, the entire community suffers. Dickson's most agonizing decision came when he was forced to shutter the long-term-care unit. "It was the only place the elderly could go," he says. "If someone had dementia, we had a room for them...
...vaccine contains 45 micrograms of active ingredient - from three different strains of flu virus - and you need only one shot to achieve good protection against all three strains of the flu virus. "Having a vaccine that would require 90 micrograms times two in and of itself would not and cannot be the answer to where we want to be," Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in a press teleconference. "It?s a step to where we want to be, but it is a small step...
...week, in an effort to halt the tribal carnage, 3,000 troops of a five- nation West African peacekeeping force began to fan out in besieged Monrovia (pop. 500,000). Doe and Johnson welcomed the troops, but Taylor, challenging their legitimacy, vowed to kill them all. If the fighting cannot be stopped, the attempted overthrow of Doe could threaten the stability of the whole West Africa region. Already, the intervention has ignited bitter controversy among Liberia's neighbors...
...psychological damage to Liberia's population of 2 million cannot be fathomed. What does it do to people to walk along Monrovia's sandy beaches and have to step around skulls and rib cages that are only half submerged in the sand? Taking stock of the toll, a Monrovia cleric said simply, "I weep for this country." If only tears could start the healing...
...soldiers in the new Congolese army. Mark Cutts, a U.N. humanitarian official visiting from Geneva, bluntly told Katanga's Vice Governor Tshikez Diemu in a meeting that Time attended in mid-March: "When we appeal to donors, the No. 1 question is, 'What is the government doing?' We cannot do all your work for you." Western governments are now hoping that the June elections will finally offer "a return on their money," says the World Food Program's Jibidar, perhaps allowing them to decrease enormous aid and peacekeeping expenses for Congo. But Jibidar says he fears possible...