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Between Scylla and Charybdis Ongoing efforts to retrieve a young girl from a treacherous river prove to be a Sisyphean task. (Los Angeles Times, Jul 16, 1999) |
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| S | ix weeks have passed since 16-year-old Rachel Trois and her boyfriend stepped into the Chattooga River, two adventurous |
| teens on a hike through the Blue Ridge Mountains, trying to hopscotch across the same rocks and hurtling rapids featured in the film "Deliverance."
Suddenly, Rachel slipped. The river swept her downstream, slid her over a 6-foot drop, then pulled her under. Her boyfriend slipped, too, but Rachel's body probably blocked him from a fatal whirlpool, enabling him to swim ashore ... | |
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Life After Death Doctor is powerless to pull the plug on cadaver occupying bed in critical-care unit. (Los Angeles Times, Feb 10, 1997) |
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| N | onetheless, it was present: a corpse occupied a much-needed bed in her pediatric ICU. Here they were talking about cutting costs, Dr. |
| M reflected, but she couldn't put an end to the care of a dead patient. She wondered how many children couldn't be immunized because of this expense; she wondered how much higher all their insurance premiums were being driven.
What to do, though? There the mother sat, between Dr. M and the respirator, growing more agitated each time someone suggested her daughter had died ... | |
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