Hopkins again tops

BALTIMORE (AP) -<i> U.S. News &amp; World Report</i> has again ranked Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital as the best in the country. The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles followed Hopkins in the rankings released yesterday by the magazine. Following the top three are the Cleveland Clinic; Massachusetts General in Boston; New York-Presbyterian; the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center; Brigham and Women's in Boston; Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C.; the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle.