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...drawer by her easy chair. "I am very bad about those Hershey Kisses," she confesses. "And I love those little Dove ice cream things. I take one before I go to bed." That's the only medication Dell will take without a fight. She's no fan of doctors. Some years back, she took a fall, and her doctor prescribed an MRI. "I just refused to go," she says. "They were having a party. It was my 90th birthday." And the party girl left his office. Fortunately, nothing was broken. But Dell knew that...
...with this, and I don't want my kids to have to." He's not alone. The Jewish population of France - at 600,000, the world's largest outside Israel and the U.S. - is in an uproar. "At my synagogue, it doesn't matter whether you talk to a doctor or a worker - all of them want to leave," says Elbeze. And more and more are doing so. French immigration to Israel climbed to 2,083 last year from 1,366 in 1999, according to the Jewish Agency, the Israeli body that handles immigration; it could total...
...sleepy town 40 km south of Palermo. For months, investigators had been casing a red-roofed concrete house where they believed top Mafia bosses were planning an important lunchtime summit. Benedetto Spera, among the most feared and powerful figures in Cosa Nostra, was also scheduled to get a doctor's visit at the hillside farmhouse that day to treat his prostate cancer. The summit was considered so important that authorities suspected Bernardo Provenzano, the Sicilian Mafia's boss of bosses, might even make an appearance. Just after 10 a.m., when the fog had lifted, two helicopters swooped in over...
...WRAY, 96, shriektacular heroine of the original King Kong and other thrillers of the early talkie era; in New York City. Still in her teens when she started in silent films, she developed the scream she would make famous in later films like Mystery of the Wax Museum and Doctor X. She had to fight off all kinds of movie beasts, getting pawed by Erich von Stroheim in The Wedding March and Wallace Beery in Viva Villa! But the great ape was her strangest, strongest suitor, in a horror film that was also a poignant love story...
...carried on the unwashed hands of health-care workers. Although hand washing significantly reduces infection rates, the CDC notes that less than half of hospital personnel do this as they move from patient to patient. To make sure you're not handed an infection, remind all staff members (your doctor as well) to wash their hands before they touch you. "Visitors should also wash their hands, both when they come into the room and before they leave, so they don't carry germs in or out of the hospital," says Cassell...