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Pulse: Health: Medical Mix-Ups

Remember the inexplicable blood transfusion snafu at Duke Medical Center, the overdose of chemotherapy at Dana Farber, and the woman who had the wrong breast […]

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Pulse: Quick Takes

Eagles: We Want Your ChildrenLook for a new Eagles TV show for kids this fall. The show comes on the heels of the Eagles Kids’ […]

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Pulse Style: Ragas Report: Test Drive: I-Robot Roomba Discovery

WHAT: A vacuuming robot. HOW IT WORKS: The Roomba rolls around your house, literally bouncing off the walls and sucking up everything in its path […]

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Pulse: Trends: The Albanians Are Coming!

“FINE ITALIAN CUISINE” reads the lettering on the maroon window awnings. I’m at Front and Morris in South Philly, where I’m meeting friends at Langostino’s, […]

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Pulse: Quick Takes

Opening for Ashlee Pepper’s Ghost, five shaggy-haired rockers from Springfield, Delaware County (left), have been likened to the Beatles and David Bowie. So we thought […]

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Pulse: Live 8: Cheesesteaks, Anyone?

While 600,000 people sweltered on the Parkway, our own Victor Fiorillo spent Live 8 backstage with local cheesesteak proprietor Tony Luke, stalking VIPs for photos […]

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Pulse: Player: Chuck Bragitikos

Is it optimism? Hubris? What exactly would cause a guy to try and get young families to cross the river to — gulp — ­Camden? […]

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Pulse: Power: Paper Cuts on Broad Street

In the past 10 years, Knight Ridder has doubled the ­Inquirer and Daily News profit margin and slashed the papers’ staffs. They’re not done yet. […]

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Pulse: Affairs: Face Time

You’re nothing in Atlantic City if you’re not on the wall at the Palm. At least, that’s the prevailing attitude among a certain determined set […]

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Pulse: Media: Turned On By TV

If there were a “Mr. Pop Culture” contest, Ken Tucker would have to be a strong contender for the title. Tucker came to Philadelphia in […]

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Pulse: Affairs: Wile E. Insurers

Are Pennsylvania car insurance companies, hurt by claims from deer collisions, trucking in out-of-state coyotes — those fearsome Bambi predators — and letting them loose […]

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Off the Cuff

Last November, our cover story proclaimed that Atlantic City had reached the turning point in its comeback as a first-class resort. It seemed to me […]

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From the Editor

Thirty-one years ago, this magazine pioneered the city magazine “Best Of” staple. The brainchild of editors Alan Halpern and Maury Levy, the May 1974 issue […]

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Philadelphia Hospitals

The more you practice, the better you become at piano. The more open-heart surgeries you perform, the better you get at them. That’s the philosophy […]

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Taste: New and Noteworthy: Go Fish

Pelicans have landed on Locust Street—wooden pelicans, stone pelicans, even neon pelicans, transforming the long, narrow former Girasole space into Pelican Fish, a seafood spot […]