Word: health
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Edward Kennedy 1932- --U.S. Senator from Massachusetts since 1963 and a tireless stalwart of causes such as universal health coverage...
John Kennedy Jr. 1960-1999 --Started Reaching Up, to assist health-care workers who work with the mentally handicapped; involved in the Robin Hood Foundation, the J.F.K. Library Foundation and Harvard's Institute of Politics...
John threw himself into the work, interviewing experts and reading academic literature. Rather than finding a needy hospital to toss cash at, he discovered a mostly ignored problem, the inadequate education and dismal pay of frontline workers in mental health. They are working poor, without health insurance or hope of mobility, yet they care for people like Kennedy's aunt Rosemary, left deeply retarded by a lobotomy, as well as millions of others with disabilities. "What he understood," says Deborah Shanley, a Brooklyn College dean, "is that you're never going to have quality care if the people in this...
...else. People in Comitan can't be bothered about events happening half-way around the world; they need to worry about themselves." Newspapers covering events beyond the state of Chaipas are scare here. Individuals have to worry about more immediate, personal concerns: clean water, food and some sort of health care. (At 6 a.m., there is a line outside the only hospital in the area...
Pappas says that his fitness and health level is comparable to what it was when he used to compete regularly, and credits his health largely to his low fat diet and exercise...