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...tunnel syndrome. After two surgeries on her wrists, McClenahan was on painkillers and unable to work. She was evicted from her home, and her teenage son went to live with her sister. She fell into heroin and, to pay for it, prostitution. Days before her death, she sent a birthday card to her sister, saying that after 67 days on a waiting list, she had finally been accepted for methadone treatment. "God, I am so happy," she wrote. "This nightmare is almost over...
...star athletes can be hard to find, fencing--a sport that values strategy over size and sportsmanship over personal glory--has struck a chord with a growing number of parents and their kids. An estimated 200,000 children as young as six have tried fencing, lunging and slashing at birthday parties as well as at fencing clubs and tournaments across the U.S. Since 1996 the number of registered members under 20 of the U.S. Fencing Association, the sport's governing body, has tripled, to 9,000. More than a third are girls. "It's graceful; it requires skill, strength...
MORE GORE What good is a horse race if one horse doesn't run? Last week George W. Bush celebrated his 54th birthday and unwrapped only one proposal for the country. Gore, meanwhile, on his "Prosperity and Progress" tour, was in a giving mood...
...Running Mate," could have easily been relegated to the editorial section, there's nothing wrong with the piece; the former president's logic is hardly out of left field (and what better pundit than he on the caprices of the vice-presidency?). Apparently Ford, found celebrating his 87th birthday at his Rocky Mountain vacation home, is convinced that a George W. Bush victory hinges on the governor's ability to find a "quietly" pro-choice running mate, like Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge. Ridge's selection will appeal to moderate voters, Ford reasons, without alienating the party's substantial pro-life...
...column that has been written before elsewhere--and, sadly, so did most other newspaper pundits and speechwriters in the country. There wasn't much rhetorical originality on display this Fourth of July. And it's understandable: After 225 Independence Days, everything--every way of celebrating the nation's birthday in writing or speaking--seems to have been done a dozen times already. Just imagine the frustration, then, of the writer sitting before a keyboard the night of July 3 knowing that every good idea has already been ground into a clich...