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When making your reservation, ask for a table in the atrium, a space that soars up eight floors. Along one wall is a gentle, 20-ft.-high waterfall. Mobiles that suggest flying kites hang from the ceiling. A good conversation starter: Nelson Rockefeller owned the townhouse, and it was here in 1979 that he suffered a fatal heart attack in the arms of his mistress...
...ship, the Israelis say, they found the weapons in 83 giant barrels, each 12-ft. long by 4-ft. wide. The barrels had dense air pockets at each end enabling them to float and adjustable valves so that they could hang just beneath the surface of the sea. The plan, the Israelis say, was for a frogman named Salaam as-Skandari, a Palestinian trained by Hajj Bassem, to guide them to the Gaza shore. As-Skandari, along with the rest of the crew, are in Israeli detention...
...Administration did anything wrong or that the half a million dollars that Lay and his fellow Enron executives invested in Bush's political career over the years bought them any special favors. But Bush knows he stands in the line of fire. Democrats have been unable to hang the recession on him, but many hope that Enron's hapless employees--whose retirement nest eggs vaporized even as their bosses were selling off more than $1 billion of their own stock--become the image that sticks. The Enron debacle goes to one of the most basic questions Americans ask about their...
...agree to some pretty punishing terms: you're born, you grow up, you produce some young, then you get out of the way and leave room for the generation coming along. Animals and plants have no trouble honoring the deal; humans, however, keep trying to change it, hoping to hang around longer than nature envisioned--or our bodies can manage. For scientists and physicians, there has been no goal more seductive than extending human life, and none that has been harder to achieve. Only now are we learning that it is a goal that may forever...
...dawn of the 20th century, the roster of illnesses that spelled almost inevitable death seemed to stretch forever. Cancer, heart disease, kidney disease, cirrhosis, pneumonia, cholera, diphtheria, tuberculosis and even the flu were relentless killers. Some victims might hang on to eke out a normal life span, albeit in disability and pain; some might even recover entirely. But survival was purely a crapshoot, with depressingly unfavorable odds. The hospital was a place where people went to die, not to be cured...