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...only they?d kept it to chat. San Francisco health officials were dismayed to discover that an AOL chat room had become ground zero for something not seen in the City By the Bay since the early '80s: an outbreak of syphilis. Officials have talked to seven gay men who had the disease ? all of whose last encounter was with someone they had met in "SFM4M" (San Francisco Men for Men). Jeffrey Klausner, director of the health department's sexually transmitted diseases division, estimates that as many as 47 men may have dated after meeting in SFM4M, which could mean...
...dining-room table, Isiah, an eight-year-old with a toothy grin, carefully creases paper airplanes, enlisting his mother to staple them together. "Nobody makes them as well as you," she says. Can this be the same foster baby that Barbara Harris carried home from the hospital--a stiff-limbed infant who couldn't sleep more than 15 minutes at a stretch, who would wake screaming and vomiting? "He was a bundle of nerves," recalls Harris, who adopted Isiah and three of his siblings, all born with crack cocaine in their systems. "He had the shakes. All you could...
...former waitress with a cheerful, assertive manner, Harris runs CRACK from a two-room office above a dental clinic, working mornings while her children are in school. Her board of directors includes a law professor, a retired police officer, three social workers and a foster mother who has taken in seven drug-addicted babies. CRACK has mounted a toll-free hot line, a website cracksterilization.com and billboards in four states. It opened a chapter in Chicago last month and has garnered attention from the likes of Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters. Radio shrink Dr. Laura Schlessinger contributed...
Marie Wyman's 87th birthday celebration at the Lobster Trap & Steakhouse in Winslow, Maine, ended with a bang. As she backed out of a handicapped-parking spot, police say, Wyman lost control of her Buick and plowed right through the restaurant's crowded dining room. Tables and chairs scattered as terrified diners scrambled for cover. Twenty-seven people were injured, and police say it was a miracle that no one was killed in the July 25 crash. Tragically, that wasn't so in Los Angeles nine months ago, when Byron Cox, 96, a driver with dementia, ran over Brandi Mitock...
...wasn't going to be a chatterbox, either. "I need to go out and listen to what people have to say," he said, by way of explaining why he refuses to tell us what he has to say. At events in Iowa and New Hampshire, Bill Bradley enters the room and announces, "I'm here to listen. Tell me your stories." Bradley says he is a candidate of "big ideas," but he has been too busy listening to describe them to us. You can hear some variation from all the men (and one woman) who would be President...