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...miners Limbong has tested in the past six months have 25 to 30 times the normal levels of mercury. Some are showing symptoms of the poisoning: muscle weakness, blurred vision, breathing difficulties. But getting the miners to agree to be tested and admit that they are sick is very difficult. "They are scared that if they mention this sickness they will have to stop working," Limbong says...
...uses Malkovich's credit cards SWEDISH ARMED FORCES To cut overtime pay, Sweden will have a daytime-only navy. God help the Swedes if their shores are attacked by vampires in rowboats ELLEN DEGENERES Returns to TV with sitcom about a gay entrepreneur. It's about time: We're sick of all those shows about morose entrepreneurs
Ramsey says he committed his rampage because he was sick of being picked on in school, where he was nicknamed "Screech," after the geeky character in the TV show Saved by the Bell. "Nobody liked me, and I could never understand why," he says. "It was pretty bad then, but it's a lot worse now." Sometimes Ramsey will be starkly reminded of the shooting, for instance, when he recently received papers on a civil suit his victims' families have filed against the school district. "I sit there, and I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish I didn...
...years ago, the Institute of Medicine concluded that marijuana has potential therapeutic value. Polls show nearly three-quarters of Americans favor medical-marijuana use, and juries are increasingly reluctant to convict sick people for possession. Oregon, Alaska and Hawaii have set up state registries for medipot users; Colorado, California, Nevada and Maine are debating similar moves. Such grassroots enthusiasm carries little weight with drug warriors, who dispute the scientific data and argue that marijuana leads to hard narcotics. In an interview with TIME last week, Attorney General John Ashcroft praised the Supreme Court decision. "We can't function well...
...translator living in Manhattan, she was suffering from chronic myeloid leukemia, an especially deadly form of blood cancer. The only treatment available was interferon, an immune-system booster that wasn't really working and that made her violently ill. Reiter had spent most of 1999 in bed, too sick to read, to walk, to do much of anything--although she had managed to put together lists dividing her possessions between her two daughters...