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...Nicole to the hospital. Emergency-room doctors took one look at the thrashing teenager, strapped her to a gurney and began administering sedatives. She spent two weeks in the hospital as the doctors monitored her shifting moods, adjusted her meds and talked to her and her parents about her descent into madness. Finally, she was released with a therapy plan and a cocktail of drugs. Six months later, doctors at last reached a diagnosis: she was suffering from bipolar disorder...
...country. With elections in May that were for the most part judged free and fair, the establishment of a war-crimes tribunal and the inauguration last month of a seven-member Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), Sierra Leone seems at last to have emerged from its decade-long descent into devastation. The withdrawal late last month of most of the British forces in Sierra Leone - a core group of some 100 officers will remain to help train local soldiers - signaled the former colonial power's confidence in the country's future under Kabbah. Critics of his goverment have accused...
...analysts don't always get it right, of course, and many stuck far too long with stocks that plunged. This could be yet another false bottom. Three times since the Dow's descent began in January 2000 the market appeared ready to turn higher, only to suck in investors and saddle them with more losses. And a bottom does not signal an uninterrupted ride to higher ground. "After 20 years of a bull market, the bottoming process could take a long time," cautions Wallace Weitz, manager of Weitz Value fund. "The Dow could trade in this range...
...Czechoslovakian, Polish and German ethnic enclaves, closely tied to a junction of railways that engulfed the Near West Side. The early Czech settlers in Little Village honored the Old Country by naming the church Blessed Agnes of Bohemia. Now, the church serves the largest concentration of people of Mexican-descent in the Midwest. I doubt that many parishioners or congregants wonder about the church’s remote name. As more Mexicans arrive and are born in Chicago (Latinos now compromise about 25 percent of the city’s total three million population), it becomes easier to forget...
...like to be seated next to on an airplane. If someone is unkempt and nervous or if they look like they belong on a bus instead of a plane, if they wear a baseball cap backwards and, without question, if they look to be foreign or of Middle Eastern descent." And African Americans? No, he says, that would be discrimination...