Service One

World's First Ace: Adolphe Pegoud enjoyed international fame even before World War I.(AVIATORS)(Brief biography)
Aviation History; 1/1/2010; 1087 words; ...until his release from military service on February 13, 1913, allowed...then encountered two Aviatiks, one of which they sent diving away...pair of two-seaters and drove one down in French lines. On the...Lerendu's gun jammed after only one shot, it proved enough to force...

Teddy Suhren's last patrol: long-lost photographs document the final mission of a U-boat rebel.(submarine skipper Reinhard "Teddy" Suhren)(Cover story)
World War II; 1/1/2010; 4962 words; ...signifying three black cats. One black cat was considered bad...Already a legend in the U-boat service, Suhren was a highly decorated...was an original," observed one of his own former skippers, Hans Rudolf Rosing. "There was but one Teddy Suhren." The U-564...

Reduce one-day stays when observation is better.
HealthCare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement; 1/1/2010; 714 words; ...improvement project found that most one-day stays in a hospital were...symptoms. And many of these one-day stays originated in the...quality improvement report on one-day stays when she was the...incidence of improper fee-for-service inpatient acute care Medicare...

Mad Anthony.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Military History; 1/1/2010; 727 words; ...Northwest Territory, 1791-94, has one serious omission and one misrepresentation that influence...and conducted many invaluable services as de facto force intelligence...campaign to start careers that took one to the presidency, one to iconic...

Aces High.(Brief article)(Book review)
Aviation History; 1/1/2010; 609 words; ...buffs. Both men died far too young in the service of their country. Yenne deftly charts their transition from "Boys" in part one of his book to "Warriors" in part two...very satisfying book on all counts--one that will, I predict, become a classic...