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1991/07/22Access Institute of ManagementMackay, Australia The air conditioning in the seminar room at the Access Institute of Management (AIM) hummed in the background as Mr Stanley Macintosh placed the welcome slide on the overhead projector. Four notepads and pens lay on the tables alongside full water jugs. The course title: ‘Modern Business Management – Ethical ... Read more
1990/07/01Bar Marlin BleuKribi, Cameroon The equatorial evening sun beat down on Baptiste’s bald head. He placed his briefcase neatly beside him on the tarmac and watched the drifting sperm whale. The animal was unusually close to the shore, from which he concluded that it was dying or was already a carcass. But Baptiste did not ... Read more
1993/09/08Clear Sky Palliative Care CenterBurbank, USA Nurse Elizabeth pushed Marge from room number eighteen along the corridor to the hospice terrace. In her personal tear-off calendar, whose pad was almost completely used up, only a few crumpled sheets remained. Forty-six years of filterless cigarettes had turned her lungs into stiff, fibrous parchment, and her radius ... Read more
1986/10/17St Agnes Psychiatric HospitalPlymouth, United Kingdom Mint-green was his favourite colour. Dr Gerard Ellington, senior psychiatrist at St Agnes Psychiatric Hospital, could no longer recall whether this particular preference had kindled his early interest in hospitals or whether his fondness for the fresh, soothing shade had developed later, through his work as a junior doctor ... Read…
