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...Titans would hang their hats in Lynn, Mass. Lynn, Lars said, was another hardworking, football-crazed town in the Macon mold. Lars knew whereof he spoke--his father played for the Lynn Classical High School teams in the '40s and still lives there...
Since then it has been mid-July every day of the year. Dr. Lynn is now the head of a group health clinic, and the Rev. Robert has retired from his parish in order to devote himself to "staring at the walls of my houseboat." After all, he figures, "to ponder is to wonder at a deep level." Besides, out of all that woolgathering, book No. 3, Meatloaf in B Flat Major, will emerge next year. Even now, thoughts are surfacing like salmon in Lake Washington. "The grass," he notices, "is not, in fact, always greener on the other side...
Doctors reflecting on the case note that Alzheimer's is difficult to diagnose. One symptom is sufficient mental deterioration to impair the ability to make decisions. "He has to claim she made her decision competently," observes Dr. Joanne Lynn, professor at George Washington University. "But the diagnosis of Alzheimer's is almost incompatible with that claim...
Even medium-size companies can suddenly find themselves cut off from vital funds. Arthur Pappathanasi ran into a credit squeeze in January when he decided to expand West Lynn Creamery, a $200 million-a-year dairy business near Boston that his family has run for more than a half-century. His local bank, which had promised to add $3 million to the firm's $15 million line of credit, suddenly backed out and warned him that he would soon lose access to the original $15 million. That sent Pappathanasi on a frantic dash for cash that ended when he found...
...cities like New York, once again facing a crippling budget battle, the hospital crisis cannot be solved without huge new investments and new priorities. "In New York City," says Dr. Lynn of St. Luke's-Roosevelt, "we have a phrase: 'It always gets worse before it gets worse.' " By 1994, AIDS patients alone, who now fill 9% of the city's beds, will need an additional 2,300 hospital beds -- the equivalent of four new hospitals. The major municipal hospitals are crumbling; private facilities are eating into their endowments in order to pay expenses. "It's a crazy...