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...what's coming. Barich ages another 25 years and his marriage takes sick, as the state suffers severe economic megrims and rattles with real earthquakes, not toy ones, and realists among its population head for Oregon, where they are cordially requested to go away. Travel writing for such a pilgrim, over such terrain, is not going be a record of lotuses eaten and pretty girls embraced...
...almost universal truth that children who have been sick most of thier lives possess a wisdom and maturity beyond their years. Benito Agrelo, 15, possesses both -- and plenty of spunk to boot. When social workers arrived with five police cars and two ambulances at his Coral Springs, Florida, home, they planned to force the boy, who is dying of liver failure, to go to the hospital. But Benny, who has already undergone two liver transplants, told them he wanted to be left alone to live out whatever remained of his life in peace. The 5-ft. 2-in. teenager...
...make the family agree with us." Muraskas, who served as the girls' godfather, says Kenny Lakeberg's drug problems and the nature of the family entered into his thinking: "You have to ask yourself if chain-smoking parents in a trailer park is the most conducive environment for a sick child." O'Neill feels strongly that such considerations have no bearing on the decision to offer treatment; he also disputes the notion that the cost of Angela's care was out of line. Dr. Alan Fleischman, professor of pediatrics at New York City's Albert Einstein College of Medicine, agrees...
Another group might be called the unrepentant rich. Of these, the highest profile belongs to California's Huffington, who paid out a record $5.4 million in 1992 to win a seat in the House. Most went to media markets: "He was on all channels all the time. I got sick, I couldn't watch anything," recalls loser Bob Lagomarsino. After only a year as a Representative, Huffington announced his 1994 Senate bid. His progress has been steady: while polls in April gave him only 30% against incumbent Dianne Feinstein's 56%, by May he had narrowed...
Meanwhile, the separate bitter dispute between Los Angeles and its police force over new contract terms intensified when hundreds of L.A. police staged a slowdown by calling in sick...