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...ELDER CARE Getting elderly people involved in setting and achieving goals for their daily care--like dressing, bathing, preparing meals, doing laundry--can help them stay at home longer. A Yale study published last week found that seniors who got this "restorative" care, instead of the usual passive kind, were more mobile, better able to look after themselves and more likely to stay in their homes. They were also much less likely to need a trip...
...Despite his grief, Bharat Mani Jnawali understands why his elder brother's March 13 death faded from the headlines after a day. "This is a very common method," he says. "It happens to hundreds. They cut different parts of the body off and then only at the end, they chop your head. Shooting would be easier, of course, but this is more intense. It's for the fear." And it's working. When the corpse arrived in Kathmandu for cremation, Congress leaders came to pay their respects. To Jnawali, who had seen his brother's wounds, the sight...
...Israeli leader may also be counting on Bush being restrained by his own domestic political considerations. The example of Bush the Elder has been cited as a cautionary tale of the political perils attached to a first-term president putting pressure on Israel, and the Christian Right has taken a ferociously pro-Israel turn since the first Bush administration. Even as the President spoke this week of ending the occupation of the West Bank and creating a Palestinian state, Dick Armey, the leader of his own party in the House of Representatives urged Israel to "grab the whole West Bank...
...Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens is launching an $85 million expansion project in an effort to make his image more appealing to young people. When we think of Washington, the Ladies' Association wants us to think of a dashing figure who resembles Matthew McConaughey more closely than the stoic elder statesman in a Gilbert Stuart painting. Jim Rees, Mount Vernon's executive director, declares that Washington "at age 23 was already the action hero of his times." Using the skills of a forensic scientist, a plastic surgeon and a life mask of the President's face, Mount Vernon will create...
...self-made man with a broad array of talents: inventor (of the Franklin stove, bifocals), writer (of Poor Richard’s Almanac and editor of the Declaration of Independence), businessman (printer) and politician (beginning as colonial envoy to Britain followed by a lengthy stint as the elder member of the Constitutional Convention...