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...accomplishments are then recapitulated. First there is graduate school and the brief affair with her dissertation director that produces her son. Then back to high school, where Dorsey gives the valedictory speech at her graduation. Before long she is a growing girl, fascinated by stars and the mechanics of household objects. In the novel's last chapter, Hugh, age five, is escorted by his father into a hospital room to see his newborn baby sister...
...emotional wear and tear for interns and residents can be worse than the physical demands: they have virtually no time for family, friends, doing household errands. Studies have shown that as many as 30% of residents become severely depressed. Other surveys indicate high rates of divorce, suicide, drug abuse and alcoholism. "People deteriorate," says Reggie Baugh, who has just finished his residency in Michigan. "Your goal is to survive the day." When a colleague attempted suicide, Baugh thought to himself, "Five more minutes and I could have been there...
...chairman feels uncomfortable with being portrayed as a pinstripe Jackie Robinson. Says Lewis: "It is wrong to focus on being the first black to do something." He and his three brothers and two sisters were raised in a middle-class household in Baltimore, where Lewis attended a Roman Catholic elementary school and then became a star quarterback at Dunbar High School. "He put a lot of time into his studies. He didn't goof off," says his mother, Carolyn Fugett, who divorced his father and married Jean Fugett, an elementary school teacher, when Lewis was nine years old. Though...
...pitched voice that could pierce the din of the loudest bar, he takes off after everything from convenience stores (where "$20,000 worth of cameras protect $20 worth of Twinkies") to slasher movies ("Woman opens the refrigerator, gets hit in the face with an ax. There's a common household accident, huh?"). Leno's P.G.-rated material is witty, accessible and firmly anchored in bedrock middle America. "I'm hopelessly American," he confesses. "If something doesn't come in a Styrofoam box with a lid on it, I'm lost...
...most of them are small and poorly funded. In San Francisco, Vicente ("Chente") Matus, an ex-addict who now works for Midcity Consortium to Combat AIDS, ambles along the rough-and-tumble streets of the city's Mission District, his white plastic bag bursting with 1-oz. bottles of household bleach and packets of condoms. His message to IV addicts is blunt and simple: Don't share needles, but if you have to, clean the "works" twice with bleach, a procedure that reduces the risk of exposure to the virus. While the rate of new infection among the city...