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This matter-of-factness was inevitable: the sheer passage of time dilutes horror. The earliest AIDS deaths were accompanied by roaring panic. My friend Eric, a stage manager and haberdashery salesclerk, died in '86. His extreme weight loss and hollow-cheeked pallor gave him a look of near theatrical decay, and his paranoia and memory loss were not then recognized as symptoms of dementia. He was surprisingly granted a luxurious room in a Manhattan hospital, with a uniformed guard at the door; we later discovered that the staff was being extra cautious because another AIDS patient had jumped from...
NASHVILLE, Tennessee: The man convicted of slaying civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. has been hospitalized in critical condition for liver failure and may be near death. James Earl Ray, who has been sick for more than a year, was moved from a prison hospital to Columbia Nashville Memorial Hospital on Saturday night, according to prison officials. Ray, 68, confessed to the April 1968 shooting of King and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. Three days later, Ray recanted his story and has been fighting for a new court hearing ever since...
...each morning, Alberta Early has arrived at the Carter Development Center on Milwaukee's near North Side. Along with Shirlene Devougas, Early cares for eight infants in one of the center's day-care programs, and three of their charges show up before 7, so Early has to be ready for them. By 8:30 all the babies are present, and Early and Devougas give them breakfast. "Everybody wants to be fed at the same time," says Early with a laugh. The room is clean and bright, painted in a pleasant combination of green and white. Some infants crawl around...
Mary left active fieldwork in 1983 and retired to a five-acre compound near Nairobi with her books and her Dalmatians. "Actually, given a chance, I'd rather be in a tent than in a house," she told a reporter this summer. In August the unflappable, cigar-smoking, whiskey-drinking "grande dame of archaeology," as Virginia Morell called Leakey in her recent book Ancestral Passions, got one last glimpse of her beloved footprints just before they were buried under layers of protective fabric, earth and boulders to preserve them for future generations...
...Infinite Jest (Little, Brown). The year's longest good novel, at 1,079 pages, is by turns enthralling and exasperating, with the emphasis on the former. David Foster Wallace brilliantly extrapolates cultural and commercial trends into a nightmarishly funny near future, where years are named after products. One of the many subplots involves a movie, Infinite Jest, that can literally make its viewers die laughing. Readers, beware...