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...contains vivid accounts, based on individual case histories, of death's major causes, from accidents to Alzheimer's to AIDS. One of Nuland's case histories involves a drug addict and AIDS victim he calls Ishmael Garcia. With chilling clarity, the author describes Garcia's gradual and painful "descent into the valley of fever and incoherence" via pneumonia, meningitis and lymphoma of the brain. As he lay dying, Garcia was taking 14 experimental medications, none of which slowed what Nuland calls "a jet- propelled pestilence." Death certificates require that attending doctors state a cause; Nuland points out that for most...
...satisfied? No. Is any addict ever satisfied? I needed to know that if I bankrupted my entire family, we could all fly free -- or get upgrades at least -- to debtors' prison. So I hooked my telephone up to another carrier's Frequent Flyer program. That didn't help my principal account at all, but it did mean that I got five miles for every phone dollar spent; so if I called Zaire every day for a week -- for 177 straight weeks -- I could get a free ticket to Detroit. Indeed, if I called a friend in Japan for 40 minutes...
Sullivan was not mentally ill, nor was she an addict. Trying to find a meal and a place to spend the night was her full-time...
Burell White, who was selling Spare Change near Church Street, said he was a recovering drug addict and felt the program ensured that panhandlers would not simply use their profits to purchase liquor...
...reluctant to go into surgery because he might miss the final arguments to the jury. "The surgery wasn't important; missing the summation of the trial was more important," he says. "Do you call that being hooked?" Holly Hunter, at least according to her Tonight Show testimony, is an addict. So are hundreds of lawyers, journalists and an armchair judiciary of ordinary viewers who have abandoned Luke and Laura on General Hospital for the really hot soap opera of the new TV season: the Menendez trial, covered live and virtually gavel-to- gavel on Court...