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...prevent such cases from becoming the norm, credit card companies say they have instituted several safeguards...
...long-lasting brain damage. Dr. Daniel Hays at the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles is tracking the life histories of 1,000 childhood-cancer survivors with an eye to their intellectual development. Among subjects who are now older than 30, the only group that falls significantly below the norm is former brain-tumor patients, some of whom have lasting social, economic or psychological problems. But not all. About 10% report salaries of more than $50,000 a year. The younger patients may not fare as well. During one period in the past, victims of childhood leukemia were given prophylactic...
...Haiti's poorest citizens, the term "quality of life" is a cruel mockery. Since the Sept. 30 military coup that deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and precipitated a hemisphere-wide economic embargo, malnutrition and disease have spread at a rate well beyond the usual disquieting norm. In rural areas, hungry peasant farmers eat the seeds they should be planting. Twenty miles from the capital, immunization programs have been curtailed, a casualty of government efforts to conserve fuel that make refrigeration of vaccines impossible. As a result, children are dying of measles. Yet in the slums, people do not complain...
Such practices are not confined to one company. Women have been fired form their jobs for reasons ranging from weight gain to refusal to wear make-up. Is it any wonder that many women think something is so wrong with the female body that cosmetic surgery has become the norm...
Efforts like Tyler Rullman's, holding Pennsylvania star guard Jerome Allen scoreless on 0-for-8 shooting and Ron Mitchell's forcing probable NAC Player of the Year and NBA prospect Hartford center Vinnie Baker into scoring all his points from the perimeter are becoming a norm...