" But they keep her away from the doctor, she says, and that's good because "I don't have time to sit around waiting in doctors' offices.

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In practice, by the middle of the day, all of the lounge chairs for patients were full and the nurses so busy rushing about, monitoring the intravenous flows and changing the drugs for each patient, that a number of patients would end up having to sit around waiting their turn.

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Khaled Ahmed certainly didn't sit around waiting for someone to offer him a job.

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Two cherry red Mini Cooper cars sit at the front entrance, waiting to shuttle guests around town as they wish.

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Decisions were made a long time ago that this transuranic waste, a legacy from our nuclear weapons days, should not just sit around at the surface waiting for an accident to happen, but should be put in the safest, most isolated place on Earth, so that nothing can happen to it.

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