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Vaughn Pinkett, 33, of Miami, learned firsthand just how debilitating some of the side effects can be. He was riding a bus two weeks after starting the cocktail therapy when his legs began to twitch violently. "I felt like I was plugged into an electrical socket," Pinkett recalls. "It was like someone had two knobs--one heat, one vibration--and they just kept turning up the volume." After a few minutes, he regained control of his legs. Fortunately, the spasms haven't returned, and Pinkett, whose treatment is paid for by Medicaid, has regained both his energy and his appetite...
...private family practice for 34 years, Dugan knows firsthand that most people die from cardiac arrest before they reach the hospital. With the help of his wife and four children, he began Start-a-Heart Save-a-Heart, a community prevention-and-education program, in which 42,500 volunteers have become certified in CPR since 1978. "Anyone who can read can learn CPR," says Dugan. "Life is precious, and CPR and prevention save precious lives...
Much of the information on Columbus' brutality was recorded by Bartoleme de las Cases, a Spanish priest who witnessed the conquest firsthand. He wrote that the Spanish "thought nothing of knifing Indians by tens and twenties and of cutting slices off them to test the sharpness of their blades." He recorded a story of two Spaniards who met two Arawak boys carrying parrots; the parrots were seized and the boys were beheaded "for fun." He also wrote: "[O]ur work was to exasperate, ravaage, kill, mangle and destroy...[Columbus] was so anxious to please the King that he committed irreparable...
...Declaration of Independence, and Kerry descends on his mother's side from New England shipping magnates. Both graduated from prep school into Ivy League colleges. But while Weld moved on to Oxford and Harvard Law, Kerry went to Vietnam and returned with a chestful of medals and enough firsthand disillusionment to lead 5,500 vets in a 1971 antiwar march. Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Kerry caught much of the country's mood: "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake...
...Landon formed a support group in Hollywood called LADIES--Life After Divorce Is Eventually Sane--which has helped the exes of Gene Hackman, Leonard Nimoy and Jerry Lewis, among others, survive a breakup. "The public thinks that money makes it different for us," says Landon, "but I've seen firsthand first wives of Oscar winners who moved from mansions to little apartments"--or even, for a while, to their cars...