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...Farmer’s colleagues in Cange was hijacked at gunpoint by uniformed men, apparently former members of the Duvalier dictatorship’s dismantled army. The men, it later became clear, had killed two security guards at a major power plant and shut down electricity for the island nation’s central region...
...retiree who has adjusted to a surprisingly different direction while resolving the issues of ego and overidentification with his previous career is John Platt of Hilton Head, S.C. Platt was a surgeon in Tennessee for nearly 40 years and then an outpatient physician at a veterans' hospital on Parris Island, N.C., for an additional 10. Now, at 85, he works four days a week in the garden shop of the Hilton Head Wal-Mart, operating a forklift and keeping computerized accounts of stock. Always a plant lover, he shrugs off the unlikeliness of the job. "I didn't compare...
...Catholic father was a distinguished pilot and a colonel in the U.S. Army. While on the island, Law’s mother gave piano lessons, and her son developed the skill as well...
When the local newspaper later ran a picture of Law announcing his visit to the island, John realized who his sailing companion had been and called up the bishop to apologize...
...Adding to these woes is the knowledge that Taiwan's health-care system is itself partially to blame for the crisis: an astonishing 94% of the island's SARS victims have become infected inside hospitals. The hottest zone of all seems to be Hoping Hospital, where to date 120 people have been infected and 20 have died, including four staff members. Last week, Cloudy Wang, a 33-year-old nurse at Hoping, refused to return to work, together with 22 of her colleagues. She says her experience at Hoping left her "shattered" and killed her faith in hospital administrators...