Word: fight
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...body by state prosecutors. "It is emotionally wearing," Sheppard said Monday, complaining of the 45 years prosecutors have had to investigate this case and of the further delays the exhumation will pose for his $2 million suit for the wrongful imprisonment of his father. But after a 10-year fight to clear his father?s name, Sheppard and his lawyer figure they?ve got little to lose. Said attorney Terry Gilbert: "We feel it's going to confirm our case or not determine much of anything, frankly...
...fell. I was out of town on assignment. By the time I got back to the city, 12 hours later, the local emergency-room doctors had doped him to keep him calm. He had gone crazy, they said, when they strapped him to the hospital bed. (I'd fight too!) He'd had three beers, they said, and was uncontrollable--a man who weighed only 130 lbs. In just three days my father went from being self-sufficient to an invalid. His injuries? A two-stitch cut on his head...
...number of wired kids? An AOL survey puts New York City at the top of the list. Nationwide, almost 5 million children under 12 log on daily; even kids ages 2 to 5 surf the Web, averaging three hours a week. Parents report that kids are more likely to fight over computer time than over use of the phone...
...albums that blend the sounds of the times than the New York City-based nonprofit Red Hot Organization. Over the past nine years, Red Hot, working with various record labels, has produced a dozen albums, each one featuring some sly subgenre mix, with all net profits going to the fight against AIDS. Red Hot's latest compilation, Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon (Bar/None), features music from Portuguese-speaking countries (Brazil, Angola, etc.) crossed with clubland beats. Obscure? Maybe. Cool? Definitely...
...reaffirmed," says TIME science correspondent Janice Horowitz. "The drug breakthroughs created a lot of optimism that AIDS could be beaten, and that was underscored by drug company ads depicting people with HIV climbing mountains and so on, apparently unaffected by their infection. But the drug regimen to fight the disease is far from easy, and even then the virus keeps finding ways of outsmarting the drugs...