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...Patients like Willie face a terrible fate. Relentless and always fatal, MND kills motor neurones, the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that activate muscles. As muscles stop working, sufferers lose the ability to speak, walk and even cough, but their minds remain alert, horribly aware of the spreading paralysis. No one knows what causes the disease, and most patients die when their breathing fails. By late last year, with Willie unable to speak and finding it so hard to swallow she could barely eat, the couple were willing to try anything...
...held at gunpoint by both the Maoist rebels and the King's army. The political-party leaders were untrustworthy, but who knows how much corruption now resides inside the King's fortress palace or in the hierarchy of the Communists? Perhaps it is because my King believes more in fate than in pragmatism and 21st century civilization that he wants to maintain Nepal's isolation. Alas, a nation bleeds on. Krishna Paudel Singapore...
...considers to be aiding and abetting their suffering. Former South Korean President Kim Dae Jung's "Sunshine Policy" of engagement with the North is denounced as a prop for Kim Jong Il's shaky regime. China, which treats refugees as illegal immigrants and repatriates them to face a nightmarish fate, is criticized for ignoring basic Geneva Convention obligations. The United Nations gets the harshest criticism. Becker spends a chapter cataloging the failures of U.N. aid agencies during North Korea's famine. Their chief mistake, he writes, was their failure to speak out in protest against Kim: "This undermined the credibility...
...President Richard Nixon; in West Orange, N.J. Born to Italian immigrants in working-class Newark, N.J. Rodino was an aspiring novelist before he turned to law school. Elected in 1948, he served quietly for 25 years before becoming a household name in 1973 during the Watergate investigation. "If fate had been looking for one of the powerhouses of Congress," he said at the time, "it wouldn't have picked...
...atmosphere, meanwhile, was heart-warmingly loose and familiar. These players knew the bitter taste of adversity, the sting of injury, and the cruel hand of fate, but still put their hearts into preparing for the season’s final four games. The seniors present—left fielder Lauren Stefanchik and senior Annie Dell’Aria—joked and smiled with the rest, even in the full knowledge that they would be part of the first class during Allard’s tenure to graduate without an Ivy crown...