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PO poll data & official reports are used to explore reasons for dissatisfaction with GB's National Health Service (NHS). Inefficient use of the patients' time is a common complaint, particularly the long waits for scheduled appointments. It is argued that choice of caregivers is not as important to system users as some believe, but the Fordist principles of mass production on which the NHS seems to operate are the real source of patient frustration. More government intervention in developing a post-Fordist NHS is called for, as well as honest assessments of the conflicts & disagreements within NHS. 1 Photograph. A. Waters

This collaboration of ink drawings and texts examines the high altitude landscape and forests of the White Mountains, in Eastern California, in particular the bristlecone pine, and a neighboring species, the limber pine and western juniper, and their environs. It is the premise of the writer and artist that drawing and writing about these species and this place fosters a valuable kind of local knowledge, while producing striking works of art and craft.

This collaboration, featuring poetry by Christine Wiesenthal and photography by Elena Siemens, connects domestic spaces to the social, public and commercial sphere of the street: to relationships, traffic, gossip, and sundry forms of "dirty laundry." In his essay on "Naples," Walter Benjamin states: "Porosity is the inexhaustible law of the life of this city, reappearing everywhere" (170). "Buildings and actions," he explains, "interpenetrate in the courtyards, arcades, and stairways. In everything they preserve the scope to become a theatre of new, unforeseen constellations" (169). He adds: "The stamp of the definitive is avoided" (169). This unique characteristic of Naples, its porosity, also surfaces in the "unforeseen constellations" of Wiesenthal's The Laundry Cycle, and
Siemens' images of Tel Aviv.