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DIED. Maureen Daly, 85, author of the breathy, happy 1942 teen novel Seventeenth Summer, who is credited with launching the genre of modern young-adult literature; in Palm Desert, Calif. The best-selling book, which Daly wrote when she was a teenager, detailed a romance between two high schoolers in a Midwestern lakeside village. Of its origins, she said, "I was so wildly happy about love and life at a particular time of my existence, I wanted to get all that fleeting excitement down on paper before it passed or I forgot the true feelings...
...mails Florida Representative Mark Foley sent a teen-age male congressional page last year were inappropriate or even constituted outright sexual harassment. But most observers would agree that what was almost as surprising as the allegations themselves was how swiftly the six-term Republican congressman from West Palm Beach quit a thriving career on Capitol Hill after the e-mails were aired Thursday night on the ABC evening news. And a big reason for his abrupt exit, say Florida pundits, is that Foley, 52, was staring at the elements of a perfect political storm that not even a candidate from...
...Harvard. All involved are clearly unable to cogently explain how Douglass did not suppress and misrepresent the Bassin data showing a “robust” link between exposure to fluoridated water and increased bone cancer rates in young boys. So much for veritas. NAOMI H. FLACK Palm Beach Gardens, FL September 27, 2006 The writer graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Education...
...savings are clear enough to Patricia Guiles, 74, of Palm Bay, Fla., whose husband Harold, 77 and in poor health, fell and couldn't get up. She called 911. But by the time the ambulance arrived, she had talked with her husband's house-call doctor by cell phone. She sent the ambulance away, and the doctor came, checked her husband's heart with an ECG, gave him a shot and adjusted his medication. The next day the doctor sent a technician with a portable electrocardiograph to check his heart. "This is much more intimate care," she says...
...rose halfway, leaned to the right, and cupped the object. I might as well have plucked volcanic lava from a crater. I could feel the flesh of my palm liquefying. Pain bolted up my arm like an electric current. In one fluid motion, I raised my right arm and started to throw the mass over the side of the vehicle, a short backhand toss. Then everything went dark...