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...cute guy in his fly-boy suit) and, best of all, the ability to cash fraudulent checks largely on the basis of his assured and glamorous presence. Before Abagnale's career ended five years later--the movie compresses the time frame--he had also passed himself off as a doctor and lawyer and acquired $2.5 million in ill-gotten gains and the avid attention of the FBI, which caught and imprisoned...
...evening last summer I was chatting in a bar in Crete with a doctor from Tel Aviv, who was on vacation with his family. We talked about the Palestinian friends he hadn't seen since the start of the Aqsa intifadeh, his missions as a reservist in the Israeli army. I asked him how long he was staying in Crete. Just a few days, he said, then added wistfully, "Sometimes we just have to get away...
...mammogram just to check their heart. But, says Dr. Kirk Doerger, lead investigator of the study, "if you're already having a mammogram, you can get additional information with no extra radiation or cost." What to do if a radiologist spots arterial calcifications on your mammogram? Get to your doctor for a physical. --By Janice M. Horowitz
...since checked themselves back into hospitals, complaining of respiratory, kidney, liver and partial paralysis problems. "Eventually, they will all need very elaborate treatment," says one physician. The government paid victims $3,000 in compensation, but that won't cover the expensive treatments these people will need, according to this doctor. "They were never told, and still don't realize, how badly their health is ruined," he says. One group of victims, represented by Moscow lawyer Igor Trunov, is suing the city of Moscow for $7.5 million, claiming health damages or compensation for the loss of the sole provider...
...Unlike many other vaccines, smallpox contains live virus. A doctor or nurse takes a pronged instrument, dips it into the virus and gives the patient several pricks, usually on the upper arm, with the contaminated prongs. The result is a circular sore, which initially becomes filled with pus and eventually drains and scabs over. Within two weeks, the sore is gone and only a small scar remains. During the time that the sore is infected, the patient is contagious to others and should keep the vaccination site covered. Some people will experience soreness, fever, head and body aches after...