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...Hearing horror stories like Dever-Bumba's is all in a day's work for Norma M. Lang, dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and a veteran of 35 years in nursing. "People don't trust that someone is going to take care of them," says Lang, 56. "I've heard that around the country." She cited research from her university indicating hospitals that place a high priority on nurses have a 7.7% lower mortality rate than hospitals with no such priority. "Really experienced nurses know when they walk into the room...
Still, when my mother calls here, she sounds rather confident that her daughter is doing well on her own. Little does she know the money and time I've spent on necessities The List didn't list: fishnet stockings for the Rocky Horror Picture Show, five sets of cards for one round of Egyptian Rat Screw (the game can get vicious), birthday candles and Entenmann's chocolate cake from Store 24 for surprise birthday parties and a $9 can of compressed air to get the microwave popcorn kernals out of my keyboard...
...even I, now a veteran, would venture to write a different one. First, I want to see my brother go through the same check-list hell I did with my well-meaning mother. Second, I don't really think a true List exists. I have a feeling Rocky Horror isn't up everyone's alley. I suppose some people do wash and iron their clothes. And I'm sure that in the last six weeks, every first-year has found that he or she is missing something: home, friends, black lipstick. The List goes...
...conservationists, who watch in horror as the global timber machine chews up the world's wilderness, the Tongass had become a test of whether even the richest nation on earth can muster the will to control the forces of deforestation. Logging supporters, and that would include Alaska's Republican Senator Murkowski, seethe over any attempts to restrict harvesting of what they view as a renewable resource...
They're showing up at movie theaters en masse--some, like the 15 members of a women's group in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in stretch limos and evening gowns. They're calling in to drive-time radio stations, like Raleigh, North Carolina's WRAL-FM, which solicited listeners' divorce horror stories and revenge fantasies--and found its switchboards lighted up like Times Square. And they're throwing parties, like the one last week for Patti Kenner's 52nd birthday, in which 60 of her female friends gathered for cocktails, then adjourned to a Manhattan theater to hoot and laugh their...