Word: sicklies
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...ginger cat arrive in the mail as gifts. "I couldn't believe it when the first e-mail arrived, but what I really couldn't believe was that they kept it up," she says. "This wasn't a once or twice 'I heard a little girl was sick, and I sent a get-well note.' To me it was a relationship. I don't know what Jo was thinking, but she was taking time out of a very, very busy schedule to write precious e-mails to Catie...
...Gina says, remembering how her daughter was transported, "just listening and listening." The family resisted putting the call on the speaker phone. "That was Catie's time with Jo," Gina says. "We didn't want to intrude on their privacy." The last few times Rowling called, Catie was too sick to come to the phone. She drifted into a coma and died...
...have jobs, the atmosphere of pessimism and insecurity is driving people away. Berlin nurse Michael Günther was so "thoroughly disappointed by the government" and the "declining standards" of the country's financially ailing health care system that he decided to move where "taking care of the sick is still being done the way it should be." Last August, the 38-year-old, his wife Frauke, 40, and their twin sons Marek and Nils, 6, left Berlin to take up a well-paid, 35-hour-per-week job at a home for the elderly in the small Norwegian coastal...
After reading your story, I felt a bit sick. How can people getting $50,000, $60,000 or $70,000 a year whine that they can't make ends meet? I think those earning that much shouldn't complain; they should just stop spending a lot on unnecessary items. There are thousands of us in America who could live very comfortably on such an income. Try living on $24,000 a year with no raise! KATHLEEN TEWKSBURY Avon...
...they still get sick. Noo confides that he has diarrhea, and asks, "Do you have any medicine?" Boonma rummages in his bag with arthritic hands and finds some antibiotics. "Try this," he says, clasping the arm of his former nemesis. "And sorry it's been so long between house calls...