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...shifted, maybe broadened. A theme that recurs is of white medics in Africa. Heroism here consists of crumbling into alcoholism, drugs and depression as slowly as possible, and with as much grace. Occasional joyousness is real but fragmented. The narrator of the title story is a washed-up doc, fired from his African aid mission and back home in the U.S., who is taking his depressed and institutionalized sister for an outing. They kid around about death and heaven, then veer into cheerfulness: "I'm thinking that I'm gonna be all right, and in the meantime what...
...hospitals that later employed Sacks would never do as sets for a TV-doc opera. He has worked for years under drab and underfunded conditions, treating cases that most physicians rarely see: Tourette's syndrome, which can cause uncontrollable tics and twitches and outbursts of profanity; or brain injuries that preserve old memories but prevent the forming of new ones...
...graduate, Sir Scrutiny was a passenger on the historic Pacific Princess. With one foot on the lifeboat that would carry him and nine lucky others to safety, Scrutiny forfeited his place upon realizing that he had left a brilliant piece of investigative journalism in the ship's infirmary, with Doc. That's also why we serve popsicles three times a day here...
...master of North House, first met her husband, Mangelsdorf Professor of the Natural Sciences Woodland Hastings, master of North House, at her brother's graduation at Swarthmore. Six years transpired before they met again at Johns Hopkins. She was a graduate student in History and he was a post doc. Her "brother brought him home for dinner and it was love at first sight." They had a stormy "on again, off again" courtship and when he proposed Mrs. Hastings turned to her father, who advised, "If you don't marry him now, you never will.'" She took Daddy's advice...
Birmingham's Renee Stephens remains at large. But Dink Slaughter and Drak Neal were followed home and arrested in Los Angeles. The Seattle team was jailed. Second-in-command Doc Dennis surrendered to a swat team in Burbank, California, without incident. And when Q himself was summoned to visit his parole officer--he once served time on a previous drug offense--he found FBI agents waiting for him. Finally, after 15 months on the run, Cleveland's M.J. Lee was also captured early this month in Chino Hills, California...