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LOOKING FOR SOLUTIONS Suggested remedies include mandating a minimum level of competence in geriatric medicine for health-care providers and training family members to care for their aging kin...
...received multiple awards, including an honorable mention at the 2004 EarthVision Environmental Film Festival. And her thesis fame and glory doesn’t stop there—the theme of power relations she explores in her thesis is also central to her first novel, “Blood Kin,” which will be published in 14 countries and was released in the U.S this month. Since then, Dovey has been traveling around the country for book readings. Acclaim, travel and a book deal? Maybe those months spent exclusively in carrels wasn’t that...
...made Kosovo worthy of recognition, they could help shape new guidelines. A claimant has a far stronger claim if, like Kosovo, it is relatively homogeneous and not yet self-governing, if it has been abused by the sovereign government and if its quest for independence does not incite its kin in a neighboring country to make comparable demands. Not all secessionists can clear that bar. Iraq's Kurds, for instance, are clamoring for independence. But the Kurds are already exercising self-government, and their independence could have the destabilizing effect of causing the Kurdish population in Turkey...
...size matters. Remember Josh, the Newfoundland the size of a minivan, which took the top prize four years ago? Some years are precious and prim, a papillon with attitude. But in this age of Authenticity, the beagle romped past the poodles, all fluffed and clipped, and the terrier, whose kin have taken Best in Show more than 40 times. Sometimes change beats experience. "I'm lucky to be at the end of his leash," said his trainer, Aaron Wilkerson, as Uno proceeded to chew on the microphones of reporters hoping for an interview...
...Haskins’ anger seethes off the page. Despite her extensive research, Faust gracefully weaves her sources into the text. The quotes create the illusion that the dead are still speaking to the reader. Faust writes about the efforts of spiritualists to believe in an afterlife for their slain kin, but she’s the one summoning spirits. She calls them the Civil War Dead, in all capital letters, as if these bodies together constitute a single breathing being. In the process of conjuring up these voices, Faust obscures her own—but given the sacrifices of those...