It has just gone 6pm in Auckland Hospital's emergency department and Laura, a fresh-faced young nurse, seems ready to tear her hair out in frustration.
Alabama fans headed to Atlanta over the Labor Day weekend for the Clemson game should expect to get stuck in traffic. The Georgia Department of Transportation reports major interstate construction where Interstate 85 south meets I-75 south.
THE weekend's results have effectively turned this round into a benefit for Wests Tigers, but as coach Tim Sheens pointed out after yesterday's cakewalk against the Bulldogs, his team is now only back to square one in its bid to make the finals.
To listen to the International Olympic Committee is to hear that the games of the 29th Olympiad may now represent the standard as perhaps the best-run in the history of the Olympic movement.
Another Democratic candidate for governor is taking a hard line on how the General Assembly draws legislative boundaries that both parties blame for gridlock.
David Paterson walked into the office used by New York governors since FDR, strode past the dark wooden desk big as a Buick hood and sat down at a straight-back chair. He laughed and said that when he was a senator, governors sat behind the desk to make the point that they were calling the shots.