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...brothers, though, have protectors: the police, politicians and religious hierarchy. These worthies are at first unwilling to believe in Lavin's crimes; then they cover up the mess, forgetting that the young victims have wounds that may not heal. Already abandoned, the orphans have been betrayed by men who invoke God as a threat and use a caress as torture...
Discontent with both the cost and the sometimes impersonal delivery of health care has fueled growth in alternative medicine, now a $14 billion-a- year industry. ``I can heal myself twice as fast,'' boasts Bill Ambrose, 44, a Denver energy-management technician who has been treating a minor leg injury with a homeopathic herb. Home-improvement retailers are profiting from consumers who find plumbers, contractors and electricians to be unaffordable, untrustworthy or both. Home Depot, the largest home-improvement retailer, posted record earnings of $141 million for the third quarter of 1994, a 36% increase over the same period...
...have to frame a young woman with no national reputation as an activist, and whether or not she was entrapped into it, no public figure has yet suggested that she did not undertake to commit a horrible crime. In jail or free, her wounds, reopened, will be slow to heal...
...month Mandela signed the Restitution of Land Rights Bill, which invites displaced blacks to file for the return of their former holdings. It also establishes a Land Claims Court to sort out the disputes that will inevitably arise. The bill, predicted Minister of Land Affairs Derek Hanekom, will help heal some of the country's wounds. More than that, he says, "it answers the cry for justice." Mandela and his ministers have tentatively set a goal of redistributing up to 30% of the nation's agricultural land over the next five years...
...that carry cholesterol through the bloodstream. There are two main kinds of lipoproteins: high density ("good") and low density ("bad.") As the bad lipoproteins travel through the body, they tear at arterial walls, forming a fat-filled scar tissue called plaque. Remove the irritants, and the arteries begin to heal...