They are among the nation's 20,000 checkpoint security screeners who have been at the forefront of the debate about airline safety since the terrorist attacks Sept. 11. Criticism has focused on low pay, high turnover and inadequate training. A team of Swedish researchers has found that people are much more efficient at perceiving images of creatures that are potentially dangerous than they are at spotting harmless objects. An intensive-care unit for newborns is an uncertain place. Machines puff air into tiny lungs.
Tubes curl into noses and arms and tummies.
Richmond Rd., Beachwood. You can usually find Dr. Mussaret Zuberi in St. Michael Hospital's emergency room treating patients for respiratory distress, chest pain or a host of other ailments requiring immediate attention. But Zuberi, an Avon Lake resident and Pakistani-American, also wears a patriotic coat. He volunteers with the Ohio Air National Guard. Before they turn on the ambulance siren, paramedics on every urban battleground in America prick the fingers of gunshot victims and feed the results into laptop computers to get a blood chemistry reading.