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HEALTH CARE: Making Sick Profits...
Sometimes you have to be sick to become a millionaire. Relying on little more than their own fertile imaginations, Mordo and Jacqueline Danyali of Hollywood conjured up three bogus companies. Using the names of real and fictitious doctors, the couple allegedly proceeded over a period of more than two years to file 1,500 fraudulent health claims with more than 100 insurance companies. The police caught up with them in March. By then, according to the federal case against them, the Danyalis had already netted $1.4 million...
...space aliens," Greg remembers. "I rushed out to a phone booth to tell Bush not to do it. I didn't get through." By April, Bob Aller was so concerned that he stormed into the research clinic and confronted Gitlin: "There's something wrong with your methodology. Gregory's sick! He needs help." According to Aller, Gitlin said, "Are you trying to shift the blame to us? The problem is that he is living at home." Replied Aller: "He doesn't live at home. He's too dangerous...
...shooting sprees in malls, McDonald's restaurants and movie theaters has fostered the perception that almost no place is safe anymore. Fear has led to a boom in the security industry and the transformation of homes and public places into fortresses. "People are worried more. They're worried sick," says Amitai Etzioni, a sociologist at George Washington University. "There is a new level of fright, one that is both overdone and realistic at the same time...
Attorney General Reno, however, is confident that stricter gun control is possible. "The NRA doesn't particularly care for me," she told TIME last week, "But it's important for the NRA to understand what this stuff has done to America. I just think the American people are sick and fed up with what assault weapons have done. I can remember the first time I saw an assault weapon. It is deadly. It is a horrible thing. The American people have come to realize what these weapons are doing on our streets. They are saying, Enough is enough is enough...