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...tasks outside her job description - such as keeping the bathroom stocked with toilet tissue - Truffet-Lefebvre felt "humiliated and very sad" to see much of her responsibility handed to a new assistant. Diagnosed with depression in September 2001, she left the following June after a prolonged period of unpaid sick leave. "I had to stop working there. Otherwise, I would have cracked," she says. She took her case to the local employment tribunal in Evry, and a four-judge panel agreed she'd been the victim of bullying at work, and ordered Nikon...
...sick guy,” Tinari said...
...made me sick that this girl was scamming people out of their homes so that she could finance fancy clothes and parties,” said Christmas...
Abrams, 38, credits his taste for serious popcorn, in part, to school days spent sick at home watching The Twilight Zone. "That show was what I aspired to do," says Abrams, who, Spielberg-style, started making his own Super-8 movies at age 8. "It was an allegory--instead of telling stories about communists, it told stories about aliens. I didn't understand a lot of what was going on, but I felt the gravity...
...food, medical supplies, communications equipment and even a few toys and some candy for the children. Along the way, their crews scour the countryside, looking for isolated hamlets that have yet to receive help and for displaced people straggling along roads. When they come across those who are sick or wounded, they ferry as many as possible to the field hospital. "We're seeing a lot of dehydration, diarrhea, lacerations and people missing limbs," says Kenny Rowe, a petty officer on a Seahawk. "We've got people with gangrene and other infections that could be fatal that haven't been...