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...wait! There's trouble in paradise. You can hear it on most summer mornings and evenings, and sometimes all day long, in the distance or as close as your next-door neighbor's: the whine and roar of power lawn mowers, leaf blowers, chain saws and other unbelievably grating gizmos, grinding away to keep that cherished patch of lawn tidy and green...
...refusals to live up to them, are part of a stalling game. His aim may be to string the West along until the end of the year, when he could have the plutonium for six or eight atom bombs -- which might be enough to deter attack or blackmail a neighbor. By this theory, confrontation -- even war -- may be the only way to stop...
...this were a western, such peacefulness would signal "Apaches!" Sure enough, disaster befalls. While Alice is tending her own and a neighbor's kids, the neighbor's two-year-old tumbles into a pond and is pulled out brain dead. A second calamity follows, as Alice is accused of sexual abuse by the mother of one schoolboy and then by the parents of several others. She is blameless, but so shaken that her denials sound like admissions, and she is jailed to await trial...
...devalued." The resulting life crisis, he says, manifests itself in everything from vague aches and pains to depression, panic attacks, accidental trauma and, ultimately, suicide. "We often see family violence, child abuse and car accidents," he says. "It's easier to take out your aggression on a neighbor, your spouse or your children. And driving fast or carelessly makes people feel powerful." Those most at risk for early death are, in most countries, the ones least likely to seek or get medical treatment. Says Dr. Erika Saska, an internist at Budapest's St. Emeric's Hospital: "The people for whom...
Last week, sitting on a neighbor's screened porch with a view of Fort Sumter behind them, the two women recalled the beginning of their association and friendship. Advising unpublished writers is not Humphreys' glass of ice tea. "I found that I'm usually a hurt more than a help," she says. Yet she phoned Bolton and was immediately hooked by the voice she heard. "I loved its sound, bright and quick ... a strong story-telling voice," she says. Bolton had had only one other encounter with the literary world, when she contacted a vanity publisher whose...