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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...family affair," Dale Coffelt says, recalling the Saturday that JoAnn McGuckin, 45, pulled up to see him in her aging Chevy Suburban. "She just showed up with all the kids." Well, not all. Six of her eight children were packed in the SUV. But so was the body of her husband Michael, 61, dead that day from the final malnourishing stages of almost a decade of multiple sclerosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Children's War | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

Meanwhile, no one is denying that hormone therapy has some pretty powerful short-term benefits. "Estrogen is still the most effective treatment for hot flashes and perimenopausal symptoms," notes Dr. JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital. Nor is there anything in the latest study to suggest that women should avoid taking hormones for a few years around menopause. However, as a practical matter, women who have a family history of ovarian cancer or have undergone a partial hysterectomy (ovaries still intact) may want to rethink their choices for long-term hormone replacement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hormone Hazards | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...dropped out of college after two years and her elder brother forsook higher education for a job as a maintenance worker, Briana spent last summer taking enrichment classes at Coppin State and tells her mom how she wants to go off to college one day. Says Briana's mother JoAnn: "If going to college had been stressed earlier, it could have been totally different for me and my son." And now it may be for her daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New College Try | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...resuscitate order, which ensures that all life-sustaining treatment will be withheld in the event his heartbeat or breathing stops. "Because it's signed by a doctor, health workers tend to honor it more reliably than a living will that has similar instructions," explained his hospice nurse JoAnn Shenk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Stories: In Their Last Days On This Earth | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...school year five weeks across the board, dedicating the bonus hours to intensive reading instruction. The shift paid off at test time. The four schools on the new calendar raised their scores, and one landed among the state's best performers. The longer year is so popular, reports principal JoAnn Bester Clay, that some parents and children want to abolish summer break. "I don't have a real vacation, since all I do is sit home," says sixth-grader La'Chet Henderson. "This gives me something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summertime and School Isn't Easy | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

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