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After Jordan shopped around for his physical care--he went to three different facilities for three different cancers--he discovered his spiritual cure at a summer camp his wife Dorothy founded in 1982 for kids with cancer. He told Imus, who's just built the Imus Ranch for sick children, how he was particularly affected by Corey Grier, a natural leader, who was told by his doctors that his 16th summer would be his last. But Grier made it through the year and returned to Camp Sunshine for his 17th birthday. After celebrating with cake and ice cream...
...everyone as sick of the Elian saga as I am? If it did not involve the Cuban-American community, the story would have been over long ago. As a lifelong Republican, I am ashamed of my party for not supporting Reno. Cubans in America should be glad that we have laws and that they have the same rights and responsibilities as other Americans. Elian was used by the Cuban community in Miami, by politicians, by lawyers and by Castro. The whole affair was a pathetic display of human selfishness. KEN CAMMENGA Hudsonville, Mich...
...mother is now the most scorned woman in Thailand. After saying she knew nothing of the smuggling, Tabtim Kaewtaengjan tearily confessed to reporters that she was an unfit mother. Her son, it turns out, had been used twice before on smuggling trips. In L.A., at first, "he was sick and scared. He would sleep 45 minutes at a time and wouldn't let us turn the lights off," says Jennifer Stanger of the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking. "Now he plays hide 'n' seek." He's been toyed with enough...
...what haunts me equally about Nachtwey's work is how strikingly beautiful all these photographs are, and I'm not talking about beauty in some sick voyeuristic sense. The book itself is huge and heavy, with thick paper stock and stylish layout. Moreover, the photographs are finely printed and composed with an infallible eye for human misery: few of us could ever imagine the horrors that Nachtwey's subjects have seen, but he is a virtuoso at evoking pity. The line between a bad photographer and a good photographer of these horrors is drawn where the photographs stop making...
Along the way, Smith's physical condition deteriorated, and he had to quit his security job. He developed throat cancer and now speaks through a voice box. "I got sick," he says. "I got a thyroid [condition], cancer, low sugar, high blood pressure, heart murmur. I got everything. I'm lucky to be alive...