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...When he died last week at 83 from cardiac arrest in Inverness, Fla., Fenway Park groundkeepers mowed Williams' number, a giant 9, in the left-field grass he used to patrol. And elegists certified his pre-eminence. They pointed to his six batting titles (the first when he was 23, the last when he was 40), his 521 home runs, his astronomical on-base percentage of .483. They recalled his military heroism. He interrupted his career for nearly five years to fly for the Navy in World War II and 39 combat missions for the Marines in the Korean...
Last week FBI agents searched the Frederick, Md., apartment and Ocala, Fla., storage facility of Steven Hatfill, 48, a biodefense scientist who seems to match Rosenberg's profile. According to former colleagues, Hatfill has been vaccinated for anthrax, worked for the Army institute from 1997 to '99, and last summer--in a potentially fatal blow to his career--lost his government security clearance. Moreover, in 1999 Hatfill commissioned a study of a hypothetical terrorist attack in which anthrax is sent through the mail. He has another odd link to the case: the anthrax-filled letters sent to Senators Patrick Leahy...
Fern Leitman, 56, a longtime Florida resident, thought her repeated bouts of pneumonia were just bad luck. Doctors told Suzan King-Carr, 58, of Hobe Sound, Fla., that the spots on her lungs were probably cancer. Ida Mae Williams, 76, of Bogalusa, La., was informed that she had tuberculosis. Three women, three different diagnoses--all of them wrong. After years of ineffectual treatment, each woman learned that she, like thousands of other Americans, had developed a mysterious lung infection that mimics TB, seems to strike thin, white women in particular and can be permanently debilitating. Most unsettling of all, they...
...could, I'd fire the director of the FBI and say to Coleen Rowley, 'O.K., lady, you've got a job.' She won't let us down." DOUG JONES Odessa, Fla...
...parent has dementia, doesn't that justify a child's taking full control? Not necessarily, says Dr. Juergen Bludau, medical director of the Joseph L. Morse Geriatric Center in West Palm Beach, Fla. A parent is still entitled to as much autonomy as is safe, says Dr. Bludau. For example, if a mother with early or middle-stage Alzheimer's still drives, he says, urge her to limit her exposure--avoiding highways or rush-hour driving, for example. Later on, some white lies may work, like taking the battery out of the car and pretending that there's no money...