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...doctor admitted her to the hospital for observation. The seizures Watson had reported Emma having at home stopped, but the doctors weren't satisfied. In fact, they became suspicious - the Watsons received a disability allowance because of Emma's diagnosis; had that led Lisa to fake the illness? The doctors began asking her if she'd been abused as a child, or had ever made up stories about her children being sick. When Lisa demonstrated a mastery of Emma's complex medical history, they quizzed her: "How do you know all this?" Her response: "Wouldn't any mother have tried...
...Montana?s tax base also has shrunk, which has forced deep cuts in education, health and welfare programs. And the biggest blow for Martz came from what ended up being an ill-advised utility deregulation approved by her predecessor, Gov. Marc Racicot, who went on to chair the Republican National Committee, then Bush?s reelection committee. Before deregulation, the state?s residents enjoyed the nation?s fifth lowest utility rates from Montana Power Company. But then the unregulated company sold off its generation and transmission equipment and plowed the $2 billion in profits into a telecom subsidiary that went bankrupt...
Rarely has a book been preceded by as much fevered speculation and murderous ill will as Martin Amis' Yellow Dog (Jonathan Cape; 288 pages). It's out this week in the U.K. and already getting more ink than David Beckham on a slow news day. That's because Amis, 54, is one of Britain's best-known serious novelists - and thus one of the biggest targets in the literary field - and Yellow Dog is his first big novel since The Information, eight years ago. Beginning with The Rachel Papers in 1974, Amis' cold eye, slashing wit and verbal ferocity made...
...Many readers felt that writer Joel Stein's antic skepticism was ill suited to the subject of meditation. "He would not have used such a flip, disrespectful tone in an article on Christian or Jewish ritual," wrote a religion professor from Georgia. Asked a minister from Maine: "Why the sarcasm? What was Stein afraid of?" And a New Yorker offered a brief, blunt primer on meditation: "The goal is to calm the mind enough that you don't need to make really lame jokes...
Seven years ago, Tomoyoshi Nishiyama wanted to launch his own chain of yakiniku (Japanese-style barbecue) outlets. His background in real estate left him ill prepared for the venture, so he went undercover. He flipped burgers at McDonald's to learn the trade and came away with a strong focus on customer input. His REINS International fast-food empire has now grown to 1,080 locations. (McD's has 3,821 in Japan.) New footholds in Los Angeles and Taiwan mark the latest expansion: Nishiyama hopes to become a top vendor in the U.S. and China. "It's a pretty...