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...when the whole, ruthless, breathtaking strategy finally paid off, and the Republicans nominated him to become the first Republican Speaker in more than four decades, Gingrich made a phone call. At 8:20, he dialed a number in Dauphin, a quaint Pennsylvania Dutch village just north of Harrisburg, where he reached Robert Gingrich. "I want to thank you for being an influence in my life," the new Speaker said over the phone, his voice choking. "You had a great deal to do with me being where I am today...
...modest but tidy red brick home with an American-flag wreath on the door. Bingo! "That looks like a Nellye Hall house," Sayer says with approval. The team doubles back into town to meet up with the car dealer who has brought the Jag in from Harrisburg. And then: Showtime. But alas, Prize Patrol history is not to be made. Hall turns out to be a great-grandmother of preternatural calm. Confronted by cameras, hysterical Patrol members, the huge check and the Jaguar, she demurs sweetly: "I don't believe this--I never won anything in my life." No amount...
...their professional teeth; winds back down south toward Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, where Joe McCarthy managed his first team; meets up with the West Branch, which flows past Williams port, the birthplace of Little League Baseball, and Lewisburg, home of Chris ty Mathewson's alma mater, Bucknell University; bisects Harrisburg, where Hall of Fame pitcher Vic Willis got his start; rushes past York, which once knew Brooks Robinson as a second baseman; crosses the border into Maryland and--at long last--enters the Chesapeake Bay at Havre de Grace, which happens to be the birthplace of Calvin Edwin Ripken...
When Jennifer Wilbert of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, developed schizophrenia at 16, she began a distressing odyssey through the mental-health-care system. Overwhelmed by dangerous delusions, terror and frequent bouts of depression, she needed immediate hospitalization. That is when her parents, Rob and Joan, discovered that their insurance would pay for only 30 days of care. It was not enough. Jennifer, who is now 21, was hospitalized at first for four months. To care for her daughter with constant supervision at home, Joan Wilbert took a leave of absence from her job as a clerk at the state department of revenue...
CEREDASE, A BREAKTHROUGH TREATMENT for the crippling and sometimes fatal , genetic disorder called Gaucher's disease, is changing lives, even saving them -- but not always making them better. For Jeanne Rogal, 29, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Ceredase has reduced the pain from her crumbling bones, removed the lipid deposits choking her liver, and restored her energy so she can enjoy life again. But with it comes a crushing financial burden: Ceredase can cost up to $350,000 for a year's treatment...