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Prior's live-in lover of four years, Louis (Adam "Waka" Green '99), is crushed by the news, but he suffers from chronic ambivalence, a weakness of conviction so severe that when discussing their grim future, Prior bemoans, "I wind up comforting you. As Prior's affliction confines him increasingly to be and eventually to a hospital, Louis gets skittish and leaves him, largely to complain to everyone else about his own suffering...
Death comes to the elderly in many ways, including heart and lung failure, chronic disease and plain bad luck. But David Hoffman, an assistant U.S. attorney in Philadelphia, thought he spied something else at work last year, when he saw festering bedsores eating away the flesh of three residents in a local nursing home. He knew the home had been pocketing government money the residents were given to ensure good care, and he saw the bedsores as proof that they weren't getting it. He investigated and later sued Geriatric and Medical Companies Inc., which operated the Tucker House nursing...
INTESTINAL RELIEF Injections of an experimental antibody may greatly improve hard-to-treat cases of Crohn's disease. Crohn's is a painful chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract...
Instead of counting on good fortune to prevent or at least limit future tragedies, the University and the community should be more active. The resources available to students suffering from either acute or chronic mental illness should be enhanced and better publicized...
...CHOICE OF DRIVER. Lab results released last week indicate that Henri Paul, the Ritz's 41-year-old deputy security director, had been in a state of "moderate chronic alcoholism" for at least eight days. Tests of hair samples, moreover, show that Paul had been regularly ingesting Prozac (since May) and tiapridal (since July), a combination of drugs commonly prescribed for the treatment of alcoholism. Earlier tests had shown that Paul had drunk the equivalent of nine shots of whiskey before taking the wheel of the Mercedes. How could his state have escaped the attention of the people around...