Word: apartness
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...week's state elections; the most recent poll gives the cdu a six-point lead in a region where the spd has reigned supreme for nearly 40 years. And if more people like Wolfgang make the switch, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's fragile spd?Green coalition could fall apart at next year's national vote. "People here are just frustrated and want to see new faces," says Wolfgang, sniffing a pinch of red tobacco. "My grandpa used to say that the spd gave us prosperity after the war. That may be true, but they can't do it anymore...
...Lattin was a fit 34-year-old when he developed a limp and was diagnosed with MND. Two and a half years later, he's in a wheelchair. He says he wouldn't try Huang's procedure - "it's too early to know exactly what you're doing, quite apart from the ethical issues" - but believes the doctor should continue his work: "Every adult should make their own choice. And even if there's limited success, it will teach us something." At their home in Rotorua, filled with pets and photos, Rein says he'd hoped for more from...
...toward the rank farm animals stowed on board. At Moorea in the Pacific, Cook became furious after two goats were stolen, rampaging through a village and burning down 200 huts. Cook’s explosive nature led to a fatal showdown with the Hawaiian people, and Cook was hacked apart for trying to kidnap the king. The crew later recovered “a horrifying package of burnt bones, thighs, calves, skull with one ear attached, arms and hands,” Zug notes...
Prepping the ER is a simple business; there is not much to get ready. Apart from their stethoscopes, the only diagnostic tool available to the surgeons is a Soviet-era X-ray machine. Ultrasound equipment? No. CT scans? No. MRI? No. There are two thoracic surgeons for chest wounds, the most common kind of injury in bomb blasts, but the hospital lacks the equipment needed to perform actual surgery. Pleas for funds and tools have been ignored by an Iraqi health ministry that doctors say is underfunded, mismanaged and corrupt. "There are days when we don't even have enough...
...point where we were just dropping samples at the doctors' offices." That was 1994. She quit her job and wandered around for the next few years looking for a better idea. "You talk about a midlife crisis," she says. She had money troubles; her marriage fell apart. And she turned 40. "My friend called from the Carolinas. I told her, 'I don't want to go to my 40th birthday party,' " Waters recalls...