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Some SKIP clients, like Amy Goldman Putman, are relatively fortunate. Her son Jacob was born with serious lung disease and related complications. For the first few years of his life, he was dependent on a respirator and needed a feeding tube and round-the-clock nursing care (he threw up 18 to 20 times a day), all of which kept him going in and out of the hospital. Putman thought she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. "When Jake was born, the world as I knew it disappeared," says Putman. "Margaret knows the patient's rights, comes...
...might not be more serious, but in a different way it might be. If you have a fan whose team hasn't been in the play-offs in years, that is some serious stuff for them. But as players, we take our job very seriously. You can't say that being a fan is more serious, because players are trying to do better in order to get paid better...
...which ironically has a slightly Microsoftesque air about it. (The European Union is looking into an antitrust suit.) If--meaning when--Apple drops DRM for good, the playing field on the hardware side will get a whole lot more level and the iPod will have a whole lot more serious competition. Zunes, Sansas and other exotic digital fauna will all be able to play songs from iTunes. Turnabout, as the saying goes, is fair play...
...Chicago Mayor Richard Daley really serious about his pledge to rid the Windy City of homelessness...
...often quite potent. But more and more, it seems, there will be some sentence or citation - or a blatant omission - that inadavertently ignites controversy, if not outright rage against the Pope. The Vatican eventually kicks into damage-control mode, and finally, Benedict is left with the awkward task of serious papal (and public) backtracking. Indeed, there was a "here-we-go-again" buzz circulating among Vatican insiders as the Pope went out of his way this week to clarify his view of the Christian colonization of Latin America that he'd laid out on his recent trip to Brazil...