$30-Million in Pork Helps Retrofit Loma Linda U. Hospital for Earthquakes

The California Legislature sent tremors through the state's hospitals in 1994, when it enacted a law requiring hospital buildings to be earthquake-proof by 2008 or to shut down. The necessary structural improvements may cost billions of dollars.

The reaction of officials at Loma Linda University and Medical Center shows how useful it can be to have a powerful friend in

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