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NATION The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com Friday, November 9, 2018 5A Justice Ginsburg in hospital after fracturing 3 ribs in fall JACQUELYN MARTIN I Associated Press Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, shown leaving the stage after speaking to first-year students Sept. 26, at Georgetown Law in Washington, was hospitalized after fracturing three ribs in a fall at court. BY MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON - Eighty- five-year-old Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fractured three ribs in a fall in her office at the court and is in the hospital, the court said Thursday. The court’s oldest justice fell Wednesday evening, the court said. She called Supreme Court police to take her to George Washing ton University Hospital in Washington early Thursday after experiencing discom fort overnight, court spokes woman Kathy Arberg said. She was admitted to the hospital for treatment and observation after tests showed she fractured three ribs. In her absence, the court went ahead Thursday with a courtroom ceremony wel coming new Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who joined the court last month. President Donald Trump and new acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker were on hand. Ginsburg has had a series of health problems. She broke two ribs in a fall in 2012. She has had two prior bouts with cancer and had a stent implanted to open a blocked artery in 2014. She also was hospitalized after a bad reaction to medicine in 2009. But she has never missed Supreme Court arguments. The court won’t hear argu ments again until Nov. 26. Rib fractures are common among older adults, particu larly after falls. The severity depends in part on whether the ribs are cracked or bro ken all the way through, and how many are broken. The extent of Ginsburg’s injury was not clear. A complete break requires making sure the two ends are in alignment, so that a sharp piece of bone doesn’t puncture nearby blood vessels or organs. Broken ribs typically heal on their own in six weeks to a month, and patients are advised to limit strenuous activity. But they can be very painful and controlling pain is key. A chief complication is pneumonia, when patients don’t breathe deeply enough or cough enough because of the rib pain. Google bows on sexual misconduct policy Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — Google is promis ing to be more forceful and open about its handling of sexual misconduct cases, a week after thousands of high-paid engineers and others walked out in protest over its male- dominated culture. Google bowed to a protesters’ main demands by dropping mandatory arbitration of all sexual misconduct cases. That will now be optional, so workers can choose to sue in court and present their case in front of a jury. It mirrors a change made by ride-hailing ser vice Uber after complaints from its female employees prompted an internal investiga tion. The probe concluded its rank had been poisoned by rampant sexual harassment. “Google’s leaders and I have heard your feedback and have been moved by the sto ries you’ve shared,” CEO Sundar Pichai said in an email to Google employees. “We recognize that we have not always gotten everything right in the past and we are sin cerely sorry for that. It’s clear we need to make some changes.” Thursday’s email was obtained by The Associated Press. Last week, the tech giant’s workers left their cubicles in dozens of offices around the world to protest management’s lax treat ment of top executives and other male work ers accused of sexual harassment and other misconduct. The protest’s organizers esti mated about 20,000 workers participated. The reforms are the latest fallout from a societal backlash against men’s exploitation of their female subordinates in business, entertainment and politics — a movement that spawned the “MeToo” hashtag as a sign of unity and a call for change. 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