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...show for Sirius and hangs out, often with the press and his fans camped outside. "For me, he's all the best things about America: a bit of a showman, sure, but also friendly and likeable, without that grim way that some of the European athletes have," says Björn Frick, a fan from Bern. As for the partying, "that's nonsense. If he drinks, he's hardly the first ski racer to do it." Says Miller's fellow racer Marco Büchel, of Liechtenstein: "The World Cup wouldn't be what it is without Bode. We couldn...
...traditional white nurses' uniforms these days--except on Halloween. Doctors and nurses all wear the same scrubs, making it hard for patients to tell one from the other. The editors at the American Journal of Nursing have offered a solution: a square red-and-white patch that says simply: RN. It's available for purchase and is being tested at the University of Pennsylvania...
...don’t want to be overdramatic—no cadre of doctors descended upon me, whisking me away to testing. But the RN did call me back within minutes, and a half hour later when my primary physician showed up, I was already in good care. (Which brings up another thing we should be thankful for—UHS seems to employ the last remaining nurses in the world who are both caring and great at their jobs. I’d grown so used to the businesslike barking of nurses in the outside world, I was surprised...
...designed to create job opportunities for the unemployed and homeless. Yiannis Boutaris, who was Greece's most famous vintner before he devoted himself to animal rights, told the crowd that after being singled out by TIME, "every door in Greece is now open to me." Icelander Asbjörn Björgvinsson, who quit his job as an engineer six years ago to spend his life fighting for the conservation and protection of whales, had a similar story. With Iceland now considering whether to resume whaling, "this award came at a crucial time," says Björgvinsson, who has been...
...agents will be singing and chess players will be dancing when Chess begins its two week run on the Loeb Mainstage tonight. This rock musical, written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of the Swedish rock group ABBA, with lyrics by Tim Rice, tells the story of American and Russian chess players competing in a world champion chess match at the height of the Cold...