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Unbeknownst to the specialists, Binckley had been spending every waking moment obsessing about food, her weight and ways to avoid eating. At times she consumed only 300 to 500 calories a day. She exercised compulsively, waking at 4 a.m. to take three-hour walks near her home in suburban Philadelphia. All that behavior is typical of patients with the eating disorder anorexia. But her doctors missed the symptoms because, she says, none of them had ever asked Binckley about her diet and lifestyle...
...years ago, the Renfrew Center of Philadelphia initiated a program tailored to those at midlife and beyond with food problems. Along with sessions on nutrition and body image, the program addresses the particular challenges that older women face, from the normal signs of aging like wrinkling and sagging to marital issues such as divorce and domestic violence. The center found that when younger women are absent, older patients are more likely to focus on their own health rather than on nurturing their younger counterparts...
...Brown, 35, lives near Philadelphia. Two years ago, she was in a serious slump. She had just gotten divorced, her parents had recently died, and she was supporting her 14-year-old daughter alone. There was also this credit card bill. It wasn't much, maybe a few hundred bucks, but it fell into the non-priority pile and was soon forgotten. Not the smartest move on Brown's part, but you can imagine how it would happen...
...thing they didn't do was sue, which emboldened Brown to show the letters to a lawyer. One thing led to another, and last June she found herself before the U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia as the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit against the collection agency. Her lawyer, Cary Flitter, argued that, because the agency never intended to sue, only to scare her and some 13,000 others who had received similar letters in Pennsylvania, it had engaged in a "deceptive" practice prohibited by federal law. A U.S. district court had already dismissed this argument, pointing...
...students—who made their road trip to Pennsylvania in five vans and one car—spent their weekend ringing doorbells, speaking to constituents, and answering questions on behalf of Casey and Murphy. They canvassed highly-sought-after demographic groups, including young adults and Philadelphia suburbanites...