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...meals before going on duty, since there will be no breaks once they start. They treat wounds they hoped never to see outside a war zone: it is to Los Angeles, which had more automatic-weapons victims than Beirut last year, that the U.S. Army sends its physicians for combat training, at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center. "What gives out is not patient care," says Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal of New York Hospital, "but our sanity...
...transformation of urban neighborhoods into war zones has turned many hospitals into combat units. "Intentional penetrating injuries" -- which is to say, gunshot and stab wounds -- used to be rare outside the worst inner- city areas. Now every hospital sees them. At the Washington Hospital Center, the number of violent injuries has jumped 94% since 1987, totaling 681 cases last year. Gunshot wounds were up 150%. Today roughly half of those with serious traumatic injuries in Los Angeles have been cut, stabbed or shot...
...many Republicans at Harvard as possible without attempting to force unanimity among its ranks. We Republicans are not members of some corporatist movement and do not have to march in step behind an authoritarian few. We should not be in the business of presenting a united front to combat an imaginary leftist enemy...
Capping off a seven-month effort by Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55, the nine-member council gave unanimous approval to three new laws regulating environmentally damaging substances. In passing the laws, Cambridge joins a small handful of U.S. cities that have chosen to combat environmental pollution at the local level...
Commencement speakers stressed issues of health and human service as college graduates around the state yesterday prepared to enter a world where technological innovations must combat problems of disease and poverty...