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...that those who feel the pain of gays and lesbians at Harvard [should use the speech] as a time not to take issue with Powell, but as a time to say something loving and supportive about gays and lesbians?" asked Dion, who was wearing a pink lapel button reading "Lift...
...fight Serb aggression. Then he agreed to use U.S. ground troops to enforce the Vance-Owen peace plan, which he and Christopher had previously denounced as a reward to the Serbs. Then, after weeks of public hand-wringing over Serb gains and promises to get tough, he settled on "lift and strike": lifting the arms embargo on the Bosnian government that keeps it outgunned 10 to 1 by Serb and Croat forces, and bombing Serbian artillery that is pounding Muslim towns filled with refugees. But he did nothing to sell this plan to the Congress or the public...
Vitamin E's ribald reputation as a sexual enhancer has made it one of the most ballyhooed -- and best-selling -- of all dietary supplements. Truth is, E does little to lift the libido but it does appear to influence matters of the heart vitally. Two studies, reported in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, found that people who swallowed large doses of the vitamin in pill form -- at least 10 times the daily allotment recommended by the U.S. government -- had a nearly 40% lower risk of heart disease than those who consumed more modest doses. That two studies...
...skin, head to toe, front to back, and this took until about 11:30. Then he put her to bed. And then it went on, day after day, Monday through Sunday." When she needed to go to the bathroom, Les, by now in his late 70s, would have to lift her from wheelchair to toilet and pull down her slacks. Once while Les was out, the radio lost its signal: Sue listened to static for hours, unable to get to the dial...
Then in late 1990, Les, at 79, suffered an "incident" that involved a small stroke. He returned to Clawson after 10 days in the hospital, but more and more often there would be tearful phone calls for aid: Les had dropped Sue and couldn't lift her again. She became incontinent and needed a catheter. Nurses had to be hired to bathe her, and still she developed cellulitis, which attacked her skin. Joanne would smell Sue before she saw her. "It's like Sue was trapped inside this rotting body," she remembers. "All I could think...