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...Gabriele Axthelm's sister was 49 and single when she had a stroke two years ago. Now paralyzed with permanent brain damage, she is in a nursing home that costs $4,600 a month. "We had to sell her house right away," says Axthelm. "We couldn't even rent it in case she got better." Alzheimer's has put her father in a care facility, and her mother, 80, lives in a retirement center. "They put away money for years," says Axthelm. "They are now living off their savings...
Such personal tragedy was what it took to get Axthelm, 53, and her husband Lynn, 57, to join some 6 million other Americans who have invested in long-term-care insurance. Their policies, written two years ago, cost a total of $2,800 in annual premiums and provide for five years of benefits should the couple need them as they get older. Explains Gabriele, who has two grown children: "We don't want to have everything taken away from us to get the help we need...
...mournful football widower, reproachfully if silently carrying a torch for the team that moved on without him to further victories. At his firing, he shed public tears, which shocked an America that saw him as the faultlessly tailored, taciturn but brilliant sideline tactician. "Fireproof, bulletproof, emotionproof," the writer Pete Axthelm once said. Landry had a right to the tears. He had been coach since Dallas joined the NFL in 1960 and had nurtured the team from its winless first season through five Super Bowls and two world championships. In Landry's 29 years at the helm, Dallas won 13 division...
...predicting games is not all of what T.K. does. She is also part doctor and part motivator, as well as part Pete Axthelm...
...Wednesday evening a call came from the Illinois Beach State Park, 30 miles north of Chicago: a packet of Janice's ID cards had been found in a trash can. The next morning, Axthelm received the rueful letter, 13 pages handwritten by Runkle on the flight to O'Hare. In it she recounted her last, stormy hours with Campo. "The first two hours he spent threatening to kill both of us," she wrote. "Funny part is, a couple of years ago, I went out with someone he knew and he hardly batted an eye, though we were even...