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For some, walking away is intended as a more permanent escape. George Donahue, 70, disappeared from his tidy retirement apartment at Chicago's Lawrence House a year ago, leaving behind his checkbook and credit cards but no note for his family. Police assume that he is alive and getting his...
Friction between patients and their nurses may also account for the impulse to escape: the helpless elderly see the nursing staff as bored and grudging; though many nurses are heroically selfless, some think of themselves as stuck at the bottom of their profession. "Nurses who work in nursing homes traditionally...
For the next two hours, he endured constant beating as the car drove around the neighborhood. Only when the car ran into a checkpoint staffed by U.S. troops did Omar realize he might not be killed. Rather than risk being discovered by the Americans, his captors opened the door and...
Kitchen is not likely to draw in Thomas Keller fans, but a broadcast network has to program for an Olive Garden crowd. "We wanted to create a show that I could watch, and I'm not a foodie," says executive producer Arthur Smith. "It's like a live sporting event...
The irony of criticizing a book for its journalistic style in a newspaper column does not escape me. I only wish Reichl had studied how other journalists have successfully made the leap from 500 words to 50,000. Frank Rich (“Ghost Light”) and Thomas L...