Word: lane
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...Lane, the long-term-care facility where Fournier lives in Shelton, Wash., has embraced the Eden Alternative, a growing movement whose aim is to revolutionize and deinstitutionalize the long-term-care industry. By infusing centers with life, giving power to front-line caregivers and making the emotional care of residents a priority, Eden has taken hold at more than 300 homes nationwide...
...cost of only $30,000 over two years, however, most of it for training, implementing Eden is no more expensive than standard homes, say administrators. Some have found it increases profits. And Eden can save lives. Before Fir Lane had been "Edenized," Denny Stasco, 58, says he arrived with MS, feeling as though he had "been dropped off at the bus station with no ride home." Now, as the resident ham-radio operator and mayor of his "neighborhood," or hall, Stasco says, "there's no time to feel bad." That goes for physical health as well. Jessie Walters...
DIED. FRED LANE, 24, promising but troubled running back for the Indianapolis Colts; shot by his wife during a marital dispute at their home in Charlotte, N.C. The couple had a baby two weeks ago; last week Lane had been indicted for possession of marijuana...
...preternatural obsession with Microsoft and Gates; and a management style that sometimes has an inmates-running-the-asylum feel. "This was precisely the kind of goofy thing Larry might dream up," says biographer Wilson. "It struck me as rather out of character for the company. [Oracle president] Ray Lane must have been on vacation." If he wasn't, he is now. Lane resigned late Friday, though the company says his resignation had nothing to do with the intrigues...
...Watson will have to explain to her grandkids what she was doing as a dim private eye who pretzels the language ("You killed somebody dead") but solves a Chandleresque mystery. Rudolph (Afterglow) is the perp of the year's most un-sit-throughable caper. Nick Nolte, Dermot Mulroney, Nathan Lane and Will Patton are the accomplices. And you, poor viewer, are the victim...