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...also claims Evergreen botched repairs of the aluminum skin of the plane so badly that it distorted the information fed through the system that helps maintain the 747's separation from other planes. Then, AFX contends, Evergreen falsified test results to cover up its misdeeds. Mechanics at Evergreen also allegedly left an unusual--and potentially dangerous--array of items (including a screwdriver, an Evergreen security ID and even an Evergreen lapel pin) loose inside the fuselage. "It is a shocking litany of blunders," says Bowles, who is asking for $10 million in damages...
...Feet never received the contract. (The center's operator, Alterra, based in Milwaukee, Wis., insists that its manager did fax it in.) For eight months no one cut Dolores' nails, which grew so long that they curled over the tops of her toes and began to dig into the skin underneath...
...Sowells' grandmother Freda Trimble, then 89, had to be hospitalized after an anxiety attack because for several days she hadn't been given her necessary dose of Xanax. Fran Firth complained that her mother, Grace, then 74, had been left lying in her feces for several hours until her skin peeled; the company says her diaper was changed regularly. "We could not have been more disappointed," says Bonnie Levang...
...body's first line of defense is to shunt blood away from the torso and out to the skin. The brain sends signals to the blood vessels, commanding them to expand in size and increase the amount of blood being pumped by the heart. Then, working much like a car's radiator, the body cools itself off by warming the air around...
Next come the sweat glands, which release enormous quantities of water through the skin. It's not the sweating per se that cools the body but the evaporation that draws heat from the skin and lowers its temperature...