Word: mike
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Then their daughter Carty, 3, came down with a rare form of cancer. They were pleased with the treatment Carty got through the HMO, but because cancer care is expensive and the plan limits the lifetime benefit to only $2 million per person, Mike says he "can see a time when we're going to be running out." Still, they will continue the same coverage. Supplemental insurance was an option, but it's too late now that Carty has a "pre-existing condition...
...Mike and Adam Hurewitz grew up together on Long Island, in the suburbs of New York City. They were very close, even for brothers. So when Adam's liver started failing, Mike offered to give him half of his. The operation saved Adam's life. But Mike, who went into the hospital in seemingly excellent health, developed a complication--perhaps a blood clot--and died last week...
...Mike Hurewitz's death has prompted a lot of soul searching in the transplant community. Was it a tragic fluke or a sign that transplant surgery has reached some kind of ethical limit? The Mount Sinai Medical Center, the New York City hospital where the complex double operation was performed, has put on hold its adult living-donor liver-transplant program, pending a review of Hurewitz's death. Mount Sinai has performed about 100 such operations in the past three years...
...letter C, Linkin Park rocks and raps about its own sense of alienation, frustration and loneliness over a furious wall of musical fuzz. But what separates Linkin Park from the rest of the rapidly expanding nu-metal field is that the band's six members--Bennington, Hahn, 24, rapper Mike Shinoda, 24, guitarist Brad Delson, 24, bassist Phoenix (just Phoenix, thanks), 24, and drummer Rob Bourdon, 23--inject nearly everything they do (save their songs) with a sweetly humanistic approach. They may scream "Shut up when I'm talking to you" like misunderstood demons, but they don't wear goth...
...your story on New York City fire fighter Mike Kehoe [THE FIREMAN, Dec. 31.-Jan. 7], who was photographed in the stairwell of the burning 1 World Trade Center: When people were making their way down the stairs of the building, fireman Kehoe chose to go up. He may not have saved a thousand lives, but his actions exemplified bravery. His "iconic" picture was seen internationally, and he got letters from people thanking him for his courage. It was sad to read that other fire fighters have grumbled at the attention he has received. We all mourn those who lost...