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Wong said that he was completely unaware of thedonation because he did not review the monthlybank statements. In January 1997--a few weeksafter the donation was made--Wong said Chickapproached him about transferring money from theclub's savings account to a time deposit account,which pays a higher interest rate...
...lead them to blame others for the death of their loved one. But what Leslie Oliva saw as her mother moved through three California nursing homes during the last three years of her life is part of a bigger, shocking tale the Federal Government will tell this week. The account is based on the most detailed look in more than a decade at some of the nation's nursing homes. "My mother experienced beating, malnutrition, dehydration and neglect," Oliva says quietly. "All three of the nursing homes are responsible for her death...
...broken pelvis within months after her 1995 arrival at the Orangetree Convalescent Hospital. Food was often left at the foot of her bed, out of her reach. She began to lose weight. "She always seemed to be starving or begging for water," says Oliva in her official account. At Extended Care Hospital, Espinoza suffered severe dehydration and bedsores. Last January she entered Palm Terrace Convalescent Center. The nursing home said she died after choking on food, but Oliva plans to tell the committee that this makes no sense: Espinoza was supposed to be fed through a tube. All three nursing...
...Association of Black Journalists, a professional organization that annually recognizes excellence in "the media's coverage of the African-American community and experience." This week the two will be awarded the N.A.B.J.'s first-place prize for magazine writing for their Jan. 19 article, "Dead Teen Walking," a sobering account of youngsters on death row. In their story Willwerth, a Los Angeles-based correspondent, and Farley, a senior writer, raised some troubling questions about the conduct of prosecutors in the trial of Shareef Cousin, a black New Orleans teenager convicted of murder and sentenced, at age 16, to death...
DICK THOMPSON, our Washington-based science and medicine correspondent, heard about a dangerous E. coli outbreak in a small town in Wyoming and immediately did what federal health sleuths do: headed for the problem's source. His on-the-scene reporting provided a vivid account of the ongoing war against lethal bacteria. Says writer Jeffrey Kluger, who worked from Thompson's dispatches: "I didn't get the sense of experiencing this story secondhand. It was really like being there." Thompson was impressed by the combination of methodology and intuition of state and federal epidemiologists: "They spent hours on the phone...