Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next stop, Calcutta, energized the Pope. Thousands lined the street to cheer his passing bulletproof "Popemobile." The Pontiff received an ebullient welcome from Mother Teresa, the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who said, "This is the happiest day of my life...
...AIDS virus has spread through casual contact. Last week, however, the CDC did report the first known instance of child-to-parent transmission. The case, Jaffe notes, was highly unusual in that the child, who was infected by a blood transfusion, suffered from a number of congenital ailments. His mother, a paramedic, had served as his nurse both at home and in the hospital, coming into frequent contact with the child's blood and wastes. Says Jaffe: "This kind of care is not what goes on in most households...
...Invitational. The highlight of the event: a charity auction presided over by Paul Newman that raised an estimated $140,000 for the Scott Newman Foundation for drug rehabilitation, established by the actor following his son's 1978 overdose death. Setting some kind of record for psychiatric fees, Brooke Shields' mother Teri bid $12,000 for a one-hour "consultation" with TV's Dr. Ruth (Good Sex) Westheimer. Asked whether the session was for her or her daughter, Mom reportedly said, "We'll each take half." Meanwhile, out on the slopes, Olympic Gymnast and Advertising Omnipresence Mary Lou Retton...
...Urals, Shcharansky was locked up for 185 days in a 7-ft.-square punishment cell where he received food and water only every other day. In 1981 he was given three additional years in prison for "continuing to consider himself not guilty." Visiting him in 1984, his mother, a Soviet citizen, found him shockingly emaciated and in severe pain from heart disease. Last month, however, Shcharansky wrote his family that he had recently begun to receive better treatment and some medical care, apparently so he could make a presentable appearance in the West...
Parents are enthusiastic about the centers. Says Barbara Segal, a sales assistant for a stock brokerage, who takes her four-year-old son Stephen to North Miami Beach's new Sniffles 'n Sneezes: "The hardest thing for a working mother is to take time off. Last time my son got sick at school, I had to take him back to the office with...