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Whitman is also the proud owner of a pale blue hallway rug with a rose pattern, bought...
Americans, he says, exhibited a similar pattern in terms of religious observance: They began attending services in “great numbers” after the attacks, but observance is now returning to pre-Sept. 11 levels...
...chocolate town, and it's turning nastier than a pack of Oompa Loompas gone bad. Hershey, the largest U.S. confectioner, is for sale. Switzerland's Nestlé would like to buy it - and leap from 7% of the U.S. market to 38%. The sale would reverse the common pattern of a beloved European firm being snapped up by a rapacious American rival. Founded by Milton Hershey in 1894, the company educated orphans and built an eponymous town; the charitable trust that owns Hershey still educates 1,200 children at a cost of $96,000 a year each...
...most people who get sick will develop mild flu-like symptoms. In only a rare few will the infection lead to encephalitis, a potentially deadly inflammation of the brain. One sure sign that you need to see a doctor--unexplained lethargy. (The risk of serious complications, this year's pattern of infection notwithstanding, tends to increase with age or a failing immune system...
...marketing director relayed an emergency phone message: "Betsy, your house burned down!" Her weekend home in upstate New York was a total loss in a fire begun by an arsonist. Writes Carter: "Putting one foot in front of the other: I was getting very good at that. Understanding the pattern and meaning of what happened over the past couple of years was harder. I'd lost my teeth, my ability to bear children [because of an earlier hysterectomy], my husband, my house, and everything in it. Stripped bare again and again. If this were a movie, I'd skip...