Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attracting people who want to live in places where the landscape is emptier, the housing costs lower, the culture more gentle--places where Martha Stewarts manque can slow down long enough to create the gilded topiaries they've dreamed about for years. In Wilmington, the emigres include a Boston doctor, a California silicon-chip engineer, a pharmaceutical-research scientist, a cop, a prosecutor, an artist looking for solitude and a carpet installer from suburban Dayton who chucked his job for one selling fertilizer in town...
...first decade of her marriage, she had been the insecure, dutiful doctor's wife while Rick pursued a career as a medical director of hospital emergency rooms in Cincinnati and later St. Louis. They lived in a series of crowded subdivisions where Leslie raised three kids. In 1989 she read a magazine article about a couple that ran a bed and breakfast. "I told Rick, 'This is what I want to do.' And in 10 years of marriage, he'd never heard me say that...
...glass-and-concrete emporium on busy Market Street, origami cranes and LEGALIZE POT posters provide the decor, while live flamenco dancers on a third-floor stage supply the entertainment. At either of two bars, customers--all of whom are at least nominally required to show they have come on doctor's orders--can choose from among 10 grades of marijuana leaf, along with capsules, tinctures and half a dozen varieties of pot-laced baked goods. A lavender haze of smoke fills...
...legalizing the use of marijuana for medical purposes. The beneficiaries were supposed to be AIDS sufferers, people in chronic pain, cancer patients going through chemotherapy and others in medical need. But the law does not specify the medical conditions for which pot is permissible, and it requires only a doctor's oral or written permission, not a formal prescription, to get the drug...
...housed between the two walls and a gabled pine-rafter roof. Beach ball-sizes models of the HIV virus hang from the gallery ceiling over the clinic's roof. These black balls, marked by a wood-cut print of the HIV virus's polka-dot structure, envelop patient, doctor, and visitor alike...