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Steven M. Mirin, a Harvard psychology lecturer and former director of the American Psychiatric Association, said that the Sept. 11 attacks demonstrated the need for disaster plans at colleges and universities...
...Sept. 11 woke us up not only to the political aspects of terrorism but the mental health aspects as well,” Mirin said. “I think that universities need disaster plans just the way high schools and secondary schools require them...
...rest of the country is following suit. Half of all American adults have tried some form of Japanese food, according to the National Restaurant Association, and one in three has sampled sushi. The goddess of American homemakers, Martha Stewart, features miso and mirin in her recipes. Supermarkets from Philadelphia to Des Moines carry tofu, rice vinegar and ready-made California rolls, catering to increasingly health-conscious consumers. "You could say Japanese food has become an American food," says Hudson Riehly, a food industry expert...
Just before Christmas, Maxine Mirin began to complain about being tired all the time. On Christmas Day, she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, and doctors gave her one week to live. She lasted for two. That was all the time it took, Mirin said, to "come 180 degrees in my attitude. I can still intellectualize why people seek out a person like Kevorkian. But I've come to understand that the lives of even the terminally ill are precious and matter, right up to the last second of breath. There is such a thing as dying with grace, dignity...
...alternative was a hospice in Atlanta, where the Mirins' nephew lived and where they had already purchased their grave sites. Metro Hospice brought to their nephew's home a wheelchair, hospital bed, special padding, oxygen. They provided care and pain medication during Maxine's last four days. "She was not able to talk, but she was able to hold her hand out to me. She knew I was there and that I loved her and valued her life." Mirin was charged "not even 10 cents" for the service; it was all covered by Medicare...