Chantal Sainvilus, a home health aide in Brooklyn who makes $10 an hour, does not get paid if she does not show up. So it is no wonder that she joined the thousands of people taking extreme measures to get to work this week, even, in her case, hiking over the Williamsburg Bridge. While salaried employees worked if they could, often from home after Hurricane Sandy, many of the poorest...
Second Illness Infects Meningitis Sufferers
Label: HealthJust when they might have thought they were in the clear, people recovering from meningitis in an outbreak caused by a contaminated steroid drug have been struck by a second illness. The new problem, called an epidural abscess, is an infection near the spine at the site where the drug — contaminated by a fungus — was injected to treat back or neck pain. The abscesses are a localized infection,...
Second Illness Infects Meningitis Sufferers
Label: LifestyleJust when they might have thought they were in the clear, people recovering from meningitis in an outbreak caused by a contaminated steroid drug have been struck by a second illness. The new problem, called an epidural abscess, is an infection near the spine at the site where the drug — contaminated by a fungus — was injected to treat back or neck pain. The abscesses are a localized infection,...
Cellphone Users Steaming at Hit-or-Miss Service
Label: TechnologyTo wireless customers, cellphone networks might seem to be made out of thin air. But they are plenty vulnerable to catastrophic storms — and bringing service back can take an excruciatingly long time. On Friday, four days after Hurricane Sandy, the major carriers — AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile USA and Sprint — were still busily rebuilding their networks in the hardest-hit areas. ...
Petraeus’s Lower C.I.A. Profile Leaves Benghazi Void
Label: WorldWASHINGTON — In 14 months as C.I.A. director, David H. Petraeus has shunned the spotlight he once courted as America’s most famous general. His low-profile style has won the loyalty of the White House, easing old tensions with President Obama, and he has overcome some of the skepticism he faced from the agency’s work force, which is always wary of the military brass. Brendan Smialowski/Getty...
Nov
02
Estimate of Economic Losses Now Up to $50 Billion
Label: BusinessEconomic damages inflicted by Hurricane Sandy could reach $50 billion, according to new estimates that are more than double a previous forecast. Some economists warned on Thursday that the storm could shave a half percentage point off the nation’s economic growth in the current quarter. Losses from the storm could total $30 billion to $50 billion, according to Eqecat, which tracks hurricanes...
At Bellevue, a Desperate Fight to Ensure the Patients’ Safety
Label: HealthFrom the moment the water lapped above street level in Lower Manhattan, the doctors and nurses of Bellevue Hospital Center began a desperate struggle to keep patients safe. By 9 p.m. Monday, the hospital was on backup power, and an hour later, the basement was flooded. Karsten Moran for The New York TimesOutside Bellevue Hospital Center, a line of ambulances lined up to evacuate patients...
At Bellevue, a Desperate Fight to Ensure the Patients’ Safety
Label: LifestyleFrom the moment the water lapped above street level in Lower Manhattan, the doctors and nurses of Bellevue Hospital Center began a desperate struggle to keep patients safe. By 9 p.m. Monday, the hospital was on backup power, and an hour later, the basement was flooded. Karsten Moran for The New York TimesOutside Bellevue Hospital Center, a line of ambulances lined up to evacuate patients...
Chinese Cafe Owner Given 8-Year Sentence Over Online Messages
Label: TechnologyBEIJING — The owner of an Internet cafe in southwest China was given an eight-year prison term for criticizing the ruling Communist Party in online messages and for seeking to establish an opposition party, his wife said Thursday. The man, Cao Haibo, 27, of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, was accused of “subversion of state power” for trying to set up the “China Republican Party”...
Guinea-Bissau, After Coup, Is Drug-Trafficking Haven
Label: WorldAgence France-Presse — Getty ImagesSoldiers in Bissau, the capital. BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau — When the army ousted the president here just months before his term was to expire, a thirst for power by the officer corps did not fully explain the offensive. But a sizable increase in drug trafficking in this troubled country since the military took over has raised suspicions that the president’s sudden removal...
Nov
01
Apple Shake-Up Could End Real-World Images
Label: BusinessWhether they realize it or not, all of those who swipe a finger down from the top of the iPhone’s screen to check for notifications are bearing witness to a big sore point within Apple. Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesJonathan Ive, second from left, who will oversee the look of Apple’s software, is said to have criticized the images in the company’s mobile software. ...
Bellevue Hospital Evacuates Patients After Backup Power Fails
Label: HealthBellevue Hospital Center, New York City’s flagship public hospital and the premier trauma center in Manhattan, shut down Wednesday after fuel pumps for its backup power generators failed, and it worked into the night to evacuate the 300 patients left in its darkened building. There were 725 patients there when Hurricane Sandy hit. Stan Honda/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesThe National...
Bellevue Hospital Evacuates Patients After Backup Power Fails
Label: LifestyleBellevue Hospital Center, New York City’s flagship public hospital and the premier trauma center in Manhattan, shut down Wednesday after fuel pumps for its backup power generators failed, and it worked into the night to evacuate the 300 patients left in its darkened building. There were 725 patients there when Hurricane Sandy hit. Stan Honda/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesThe National...
Tool Kit: Facebook and Twitter Needn’t Flood Your In-box
Label: TechnologyIt doesn’t take a hurricane, a presidential debate or an Apple product announcement to find yourself overwhelmed by the ceaseless flood of updates pouring into your social networks. Thanks to Zuckerberg’s Law — the belief of Facebook’s co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg, that people share twice as much every year as they did the year before — there really is more information than ever before. Twitter...
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