Word: corde
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crusade in search of its 15 minutes of fame sometimes needs a celebrity sacrifice. Zoe Baird gave us immigration reform, Christopher Reeve makes it impossible to ignore spinal-cord research, Magic Johnson lent his charisma to the fight against AIDS. Now the issue of exploited child workers--an ugly story that has become routine--lands in the morning papers and on the evening news because the exploiter suddenly has a perky, famous face. When Kathie Lee Gifford tearfully confessed on her morning talk show last month that yes, her Wal-Mart outfits were made by Honduran girls paid 31[cents...
...book is a technothriller, we wouldn't expect lucid, evocative prose, although Davis does present us with the occasional gem: "He cut the corpse's intestines with the sangfroid of an obstetrician clipping a baby's navel cord..." But at other moments Davis lapses into tiresome literary tics, for example, the Amazing, All-In-One Speech Formula: within a few pages, we see people pleading, muttering, snapping, intervening, erupting, venturing, uttering in horror (a personal favorite), inserting furrowing brow in non-comprehension, half-gasping, rebutting, speaking sotto voce (a diving officer, no less), barking, snorting, and chirping...
...with Caffey allegedly using scissors and a knife to perform a C-section on Evans. Then Williams, who has some training as a nurse's aide, extracted the 38-week-old, 6-lb. 8-oz. baby. After reviving Elijah with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, Williams inexpertly cut the umbilical cord, then cleaned and dressed...
Eight and a half million veterans are 65 or older. Twenty-five thousand of them suffer from paralyzing spinal-cord injuries or diseases, and in many cases, their spouses are growing too frail to care for them at home. Six hundred thousand veterans, by VA estimate, will be suffering from Alzheimer's and other severely dementing conditions by the year 2000. Yet the VA and state veterans homes today can provide fewer than 40,000 nursing-home beds. "The demand for long-term care is going to skyrocket over the next five to 15 years," observes VA Under Secretary...
...that hit him the first few times his ventilator stopped functioning, the love of his family that keeps him going. He and his wife chose Walters after being pursued by virtually every interviewer in the business. "Our main goal was to get a message out about what a spinal-cord injury is," Reeve says. "We wanted to make sure that our story was not trivialized or sensationalized. I felt after watching Barbara Walters for so many years that she would be the best qualified to help us with that...