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Valdez gave birth to her first child at Copper Queen Community Hospital in Bisbee, an old mining town just 26 miles northwest of Douglas. But when six family practitioners decided they couldn't afford the soaring malpractice premiums required for them to keep delivering babies, the hospital was forced to close its delivery room. Suddenly rural Cochise County, a 6,000-sq.-mi. expanse of mountains and desert along the Mexican border, had but one delivery room left for its 118,000 residents. It is in Sierra Vista, 50 miles northwest of Valdez's home. Which means that a week...
...expectant couples rent motel rooms in Sierra Vista for when their babies are due. But some who can't afford a room or whose timing is off end up with the baby arriving in the middle of the night while they're racing along the highway, according to Copper Queen Hospital CEO James Dickson. The intersection of Highways 80 and 90 is listed as the place of birth on the certificate of a baby girl born in the front passenger seat of a car where those highways cross. Women lacking transportation, a common problem in this working-poor area, have...
...Discus Thrower. Inside the house are mementos of her travels, with images of camels everywhere. A bust of Nefertiti sits on her mantel. On a chair is an embroidered pillow that reads BEHIND EVERY GREAT WOMAN IS HERSELF. Lively and energetic, Mertz surveys it all with justifiable pride, queen of her property. "It took me a long time to get here," she says. "Sometimes I didn't think I would make...
Shall I have the brains? Would that be better copy for you?" It would. So Nigella Lawson--former newspaperwoman, member of PEOPLE'S 50 Most Beautiful People list and reigning cookbook queen--has the calf's brains. She also has the octopus salami, the gnocchi with zucchini flowers, spaghetti with sardines, Tuscan steak, crispy duck and other gourmet victuals--many of which originally resided on my plate...
...fact, for drag bingo, the BGLTSA explicitly took their political inspiration from television’s Sex in the City—an unlikely candidate for models of radical subversion. For this extravaganza, the BGLTSA board felt it necessary to hire a real live drag queen to provide them with make-up tips—thereby revealing the way in which the event depended upon a tokenized, exoticized identity of which the BGLTSA knew nothing...