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...Lori Ferguson wishes her father hadn?t been one of them. George Ott, 63, of Brookfield, Connecticut was used to being in good shape. He ate properly and went to the gym regularly. Then came a diagnosis of kidney cancer in August, 2005. ?Ott chose to go to the Hospital Santa Monica in Rosarito, Mexico because the options given to him by American doctors had the potential of causing taxing side effects. Ferguson says her father soon faced a more dangerous fate starting on the first day of his hospital stay. ?They inserted a catheter,? she says, ?and his health...
Before Mayor Ray Nagin made his now notorious comment about New Orleans as a "chocolate" city on Martin Luther King Day, the former businessman was in surprisingly good shape to win re-election in April. Despite repeated missteps since Hurricane Katrina hit five months ago, he still had backing from both whites and African Americans in the city, a splintered opposition and a tidy campaign treasure chest with over $1 million...
...segregation of the Montgomery City Bus Lines, which became a national issue when Rosa Parks made her stand in that city in 1955. After that incident, the Dexter Avenue church became a growing meeting place for civil rights activists. Soon, King's life and legacy began to take shape in a public sphere, while at home four children would soon enter the their household...
...save for health care expenses in a tax free account so long as they buy a catastrophic insurance policy with a high deductible. "I'm going to remind people we're living in historic times and that we have a chance to make decisions today that will help shape the direction of events for years to come," Bush said last week...
...that the shows have line-for-line scripts (although reality writers have charged that Paris Hilton was fed lines on The Simple Life). But Jeff Bartsch, a freelance reality-show editor, says there are many ways of using footage to shape a story. Bartsch worked on Blind Date, a syndicated dating show that features hookups gone right--and comically wrong. If a date was dull or lukewarm, the editors would juice the footage by running scenes out of order or out of context. To make it seem like a man was bored, they would cut from his date talking...