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Grace Lebow, co-director of Aging Network Services in Bethesda, Md., says requests for long-distance geriatric-care managers have tripled since Sept. 11: "Older clients have depended on their kids' coming in from long distances to check on them from time to time. Now people aren't traveling." Lebow has a 94-year-old client who says she is not sleeping well and feels more depressed, knowing that her family won't get to her for the holidays. She wonders if she will ever see them again...
...clarity. No matter how much sorrow lingers for the nation and the world after Sept. 11, no matter what fears we will have to accept, no matter how much anger we harbor, we're all in this together now. Isn't that what makes a nation? CHRISTOPHER KERNS Rockville, Md...
...Commission, no gum arabic was imported from Canada between 1996 and 2000. The level of concern over the safety of gum arabic in foods should be no less and no greater than that for any other food ingredient processed in the U.S. STEPHEN A. ANDON, PRESIDENT TIC Gums Belcamp, Md...
...Boeing MD-80 on its way from Mexico to San Francisco crashes into the Pacific Ocean, killing all 88 aboard. The reason? A critical part of the plane's tail-control mechanism snapped off, most likely because of wear and a lack of adequate lubrication...
Departing from New York City, a Boeing MD-11 en route to Geneva crashes off Nova Scotia, killing 229. Canadian investigators haven't determined a specific cause of the crash, but they suspect that wiring problems may have started a fire...