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Kevin Willis

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Lisa Autry

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Joe Corcoran

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Business

5:05 pm

Wed May 23, 2012

Investors Question Fairness Of Facebook IPO

By Jim Zarroli

Originally published on Wed May 23, 2012 6:22 pm

Shares of Facebook on Wednesday made up a little of the ground they've lost since the company's troubled stock offering last week. But the company and its lead underwriter, Morgan Stanley, still face a lot of legal problems.

Some of the investors who bought shares of the company filed a lawsuit alleging that the two companies concealed information about Facebook's expected performance.

4:27 pm

Wed May 23, 2012

By Putting Patients First, Hospital Tries To Make Care More Personal

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Patient Bob Berquist with Gregory Wagner, a doctor in the emergency department. Berquist, who volunteers at Fauquier Hospital, was admitted for low blood sugar when another nurse noticed he seemed dizzy.

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The chefs in the cafeteria try to buy whatever food they can't grow in the garden from farms as close to home as possible.

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Lisa Spitzer, a registered nurse, is a Planetree program manager and concierge at Fauquier Hospital. She visits patients and offers a friendly ear and a helping hand.

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Twice a week, local seniors in Warrenton, Va., flock to the hospital's cafeteria, called The Bistro, for a meal, a great view and musical accompaniment by a retired piano player from a nearby Nordstrom's.

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Each birthing suite is designed for the newborn to remain in the room with the mother, and there is an additional bed in the room for dad, or other care partner.

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Family and friends are welcome at the hospital anytime, day or night, and each of the 97 patient rooms is designed as a single-occupancy room with a bed for caregivers to spend the night.

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Fauquier Hospital was among the first five hospitals in the nation — and the only one in Virginia — to meet a specific list of criteria that qualifies it as providing truly patient-centered care.

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The organic garden outside the hospital supplies the kitchen with fresh vegetables and herbs. Even the wood used for the trellises is untreated so that chemicals don't leach into the garden soil.

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By Julie Rovner

Originally published on Wed May 23, 2012 6:22 pm

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No one likes to go to the hospital.

But some hospitals around the nation are trying to make their patients' stays a little less unpleasant.

They're members of an organization called Planetree, which was founded by a patient named Angelica Thieriot, who had a not-so-good hospital experience back in the 1970s.

4:19 pm

Wed May 23, 2012

Beijing Imposes 'Two-Fly' Rule For Public Restrooms

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A worker cleans a public bathroom in Beijing. New rules require that public restrooms in the Chinese capital have no more than two flies in them.

By Stephanie Federico

Officials in Beijing have ruled that public restrooms in the Chinese capital can have no more than two flies in them at one time, the BBC reports.

New rules issued Monday by the Beijing Municipal Commission of City Administration and Environment also regulate ads within the bathrooms and state that no more than two pieces of trash can be left uncollected for more than a half-hour.

The rules apply to bathrooms in tourist spots such as parks, railway stations, supermarkets and malls.

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