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Anders offered upsetting details: A child's mysterious life-threatening disease misdiagnosed; terminal cancer patients denied last-ditch bone-marrow transplants; doctors who watch bottom lines instead of blood pressures; nurses who scan spreadsheets instead of bedsheets ...
Monday afternoon's signing ceremony (Beijing time)--the culmination of more than a decade of intermittent negotiations between the United States and China--comes after a week of intense, last-ditch efforts by Clinton envoys to ink a deal by the Nov. 30 WTO meeting in Seattle.
The retreat ended in 1938 with the Nationalist government dug in behind the gorges of the Yangzi River, in the last-ditch capital of Chongqing.
In the new genetic thrillers, it's the scientist who makes a last-ditch stand against an irresponsible society--reflecting a role for scientists as the defenders of ethical principles that were born at the Nazi doctor trials at Nuremberg and endured through the Cold War.
It is, for the most part, a novelization of the Menendez case, but the O.J. nonsense shadows it, and the whole incompetent O.J. prosecution team seems to have been flown in for a last-ditch battle with the forces of billable evil.