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Bessie's daughter Ann used to visit her mother in the home, some 50 miles northeast of San Francisco, and find her lying immobile in a filthy bed. "She was not turned and kept clean and dry, which led to the bedsores," Ann recalls. A bedsore on Bessie's left hip turned into a gaping wound that would not heal, despite repeated whirlpool baths. Creekside nurse Patricia Lloyd knew why: the special washing machine for cleaning dirty bedpans had broken down. "So we washed bedpans in the whirlpool," she says, "and then we'd put patients with big bedsores, like...
...property-tax battlefront, McGreevey charges that Whitman's much celebrated cuts in state taxes have forced property taxes up by shifting the revenue-raising burden to school districts and other local authorities. Whitman responds that local governments simply spend too much. No matter who is right, McGreevey has effectively kept the debate exactly where Whitman doesn't want...
...rumor they denied repeatedly. Dillon's father, for one, always wondered about the autopsy report and never believed the death was an accident. Says Bonnie Mead, who was Martin Dillon's secretary: "We don't know why people put blinders on in this town." Nevertheless, the elder Dillon kept his peace until his grandchildren were older. In 1989 he hired a private investigator to review the evidence and by 1995 had got the authorities to exhume his son's body for another autopsy...
...only Jew in town, he did not feel he would be believed. Last Wednesday the defense presented the Dillons' former baby sitter, Cindy Klein, who testified that Dillon "told me he was going to take Dr. Scher up to his hunting cabin ... and kill him." She said she had kept quiet at the time because her mother did not want her involved in the case. A defense pathologist added that the autopsy evidence is consistent with two men struggling...
Raising butterflies isn't all that easy, as the Olson eighth-graders discovered. Every other day, the students would gather milkweed pods for their charges to eat. They kept journals, which they took home to their parents for evaluation. They rushed in on Mondays to see how their monarchs were doing, but they also struggled with large issues when one of them died...