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...Normally, Germans are a sedate and patient people. It took 16 years to get sick of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, but here we are, already tired of Schröder after seven years. Kohl's shoes were simply too big for Schröder to fill. If there had been no catastrophic flooding in August 2002 and if Bush had not gone to war in Iraq, Schröder's term would have ended after four years, in 2002. It's time for him to go. No one will miss him. Thomas Kanthak Braunfels, Germany...
Starting with a shelter for dying street dwellers in Calcutta in the early 1950s, Mother Teresa has built her Missionaries of Charity into an organization of 2,000 sisters and 400 brothers who reach out to the homeless, hungry and sick in 52 countries. Yet it took all of the Roman Catholic nun's prestige to provide a New York City hospice for patients in the terminal stages of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. At the facility's Christmas Eve dedication, Mother Teresa was on hand. Of AIDS patients, she said, "Each one of them is Jesus in a distressing disguise...
Current estimates are that between 5% and 13% of the U.S. work force abuses drugs other than alcohol. Numerous studies have shown that such abuse means up to three times as many job-related accidents and ten or more times as many sick days. As a result, companies are cracking down...
...Harris held out for more money this season and have missed the entire festival. Richard Dent, a particularly wanton defensive end, chose to work while he grumbled. Dent threatened to forgo the Super Bowl, but backed down when Ditka seemed inclined to play the game anyway." I'm sick for Todd Bell," says Fencik. "He's the best safety I've ever played with. It's not just a matter of losing two players' talents. It's a matter of--hey, they're part...
...storybook legend of Donna Ashlock continues to grow. She is the California youngster whose romantically heartsick school friend, Felipe Garza, astoundingly prefigured his own death and directed that her sick heart be replaced with his. When Garza, 15, actually did die of a burst blood vessel in the brain, a transplant proved possible, and last week, just eleven days after the operation, Donna, 14, was well enough to log ten minutes on an exercise bicycle. Doctors at Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco said that her body showed no signs of rejecting her new heart and that she might...