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...leave the profession when he was offered a part in The Warrior, a 2001 period piece filmed in India by a British-Indian director. It was the first time a director asked him to "do nothing," and he finally felt free. "That changed my life," he says. "I couldn't work in television after that...
...white tent was erected on the site, where hundreds of reporters gathered to watch CEO Sheldon Adelson celebrate the roof being laid on the resort's three interlinked towers. As bongo drums pounded, Adelson, 76, turned to the architect of the project to thank him, but not before joking, "Couldn't you have designed it to look as good without the cost...
...when Rutzel first sought help for anemia and osteopenia, a precursor of osteoporosis triggered by her avoidance of calcium, her doctor in upstate New York, where she attended college, had never heard of orthorexia. "You should be trying to eat healthy," she remembers him telling her. He couldn't quite grasp that he was talking to a health nut who believed there were few truly healthy foods she felt were safe to eat. Her condition was eventually identified as anorexia, a diagnosis that organizations like the Washington-based Eating Disorders Coalition think is a mistake. The group, which represents more...
...genetically male. IOC medical officials allowed her to compete in the 1992 Olympic trials in Barcelona, but the damage was done. "In the worst of moments, when I had no support from anyone, I thought I would be better off dead," she says. "It killed me that I couldn't participate in the sport and, above all, I thought I would never recover from the embarrassment...
...Melville's great-aunt and aunt both lived at the home at the time of Deborah's death. Both women were charged with manslaughter in the case but were eventually acquitted in 2008 on the grounds that they couldn't have known just how sick she was. Not everyone, however, was let off the hook: In an inquiry completed on Jan. 19, the national Department of Families and Child Services, the authority that was supposed to be protecting Deborah, was found largely responsible for her death, having ignored the many red flags raised throughout her six years in foster care...