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...from Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani and stumbled over his replies. Says a B.J.P. official: "He is very alert when he is functional. But there are very few hours like that, and being a Prime Minister, unfortunately, is a 24-hour job." Asked if he suffered from any serious ailment, Vajpayee once replied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bad Menu for Peace | 6/17/2002 | See Source »

...mark, it was Fred Astaire. And if I was black and blue, it was Gene Kelly." Not to say that both men didn?t work their leading ladies hard. Debbie Reynolds, co-starring with Kelly in "Singin? in the Rain," was rehearsed so relentlessly she suffered exactly the same ailment as Rogers had with Astaire on "Top Hat": bleeding feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Dancin? Man | 3/2/2002 | See Source »

...mother, one becomes something of an expert on scary disease names. Shortly after giving birth, some switch in your brain opens up a cerebral vat into which you pour the name of every horrific childhood ailment yet discovered. And they stay there, stewing and bubbling over every time your child looks the tiniest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Whooping Cough Attacks | 2/13/2002 | See Source »

...would be hard for donors to lie: donors, who can be disqualified just because they strike a staff member as odd, meet frequently with "donor managers" and must update their information regularly. Yet California Cryobank is being sued by a woman whose child has a serious kidney ailment not included on the donor's family medical profile. The donor, says Sims, did not know his family had the disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Donor To Order | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

AILING. RUSH LIMBAUGH, 50, conservative radio commentator; from a rare inner-ear ailment that has rendered him virtually deaf. Limbaugh told his 20 million listeners that he planned to continue to broadcast--if necessary, without callers. "All I've lost is my ability to hear," he said. "It doesn't mean I've lost my ability to communicate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 22, 2001 | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

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