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...Fran Morgan, 58, who had not spoken to her daughter Ginger, 38, for nearly 15 years, it was the chance to help her child out of a financial bind that brought them back together. They stopped talking when Ginger, at age 15, moved in with her father after her parents' divorce. "My mom was an alcoholic at the time, and we just never got along," Ginger says. But Ginger, at 29, found herself alone in Dallas, unemployed, nearly broke and almost suicidal. To her surprise, the one person from whom she wanted help was her mother. She asked Fran...
...been trying to find a way out of this bind since the 1960s, when militants proposed the creation of a black third party that could deliver our votes to the party that offered us most. Nothing ever came of the idea, because the "party of Lincoln" was transforming itself into the party of Lott, Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms, leaving self-respecting blacks no choice but to run to the Democrats. Yet the movement's battle cry--"We have no permanent friends, no permanent enemies, only permanent interests"--is as valid today as it was then, even if the prospects...
Dingman added that the results will not bind the Masters in making decisions about reappointment...
...arthritis are combination therapies. Methotrexate, a cancer drug which has been used to treat RA for 30 years, is augmented by other drugs, including the recently developed but costly "biologics" such as etanercept (Enbrel), infliximab (Remicade) and anakinra (Kineret). These are genetically engineered versions of naturally occurring molecules that bind or block the activity of cytokines. Also in very early development are drugs designed to reduce the formation of the blood vessels that feed the tumor-like growth of the synovium...
Closeness of the kind Davis describes can be difficult enough to maintain when biological parents split. But when stepparents divorce, the ties that bind stepparents and stepchildren often stretch to the breaking point. According to a 1998 study by researchers at the University of Virginia, 75% of divorced men and 66% of divorced women remarry, but these remarriages have a notoriously high casualty rate, especially when children are brought into the mix. Remarriages with children at home are half again as likely to fail as those with no stepkids. This multiple-married and redivorced demographic means that many Americans...