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The story of Gregory K. in Florida brought the debate onto the national stage, when he successfully sued to "divorce" the mother who had abandoned him in order to remain with the foster family he had been living with for nearly a year. His was a rare victory: more typical...
The days following the crash showed both the depth of Leakey's courage and the strength of his commitment to saving African wildlife. Hour after hour, he lay in pain in a Nairobi hospital that could not adequately deal with the infections he developed. Septicemia posed a mortal risk, as...
Her own life was aided by counseling when her son, at the age of six, was nearly killed in an automobile accident in 1989. In her Senate testimony, she noted how hard it is to get the head treated as well as the body. Plaintively, she recalled Rosalynn Carter's...
Besides covering more people, the President must decide whether to go along with pleas from the mental-health lobby for "parity" with other medical coverage, which would mean at least an 80% reimbursement of all mental-health treatment. As the Wilberts learned painfully, many insurers now sharply limit access to...
Senator Sam Nunn's Senate Armed Services Committee resumed its hearings on gays in the military with a shrewd photo-op tour of bunks in cramped naval vessels. In a week of testimony that included pleas to lift the ban on gay servicemen and -women and assertions by retired Army...