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...entire world is experiencing a Pope who is sick, who is disabled and who is dying." CHRISTOPH CARDINAL SCHOENBORN, Archbishop of Vienna, on the declining health of Pope John Paul...
...daughter Nava, 20, victims of a suicide bomber the night before her wedding, was a heartrending piece [WORLD, Sept. 22]. As an emergency-medicine physician, Applebaum showed absolute concern for victims, whether Palestinian or Israeli, and his work to build better, more efficient facilities to treat the sick and wounded made him a role model for the world. How tragic that his life was cut short by those who represent the antithesis of everything he stood for. ROBERT ISLER Fair Lawn...
...four doctors and 20 nurses. "Instead of taking three hours out of work to go to the doctor, it takes 30 minutes," Goodnight says. The company figures the on-site health care saves it $2,000 per employee annually, because workers get to go to the doctor sooner when sick. The same rationale applies to the on-site barbershop, child-care center, gym and the staffer who arranges for care for elderly relatives. "Every minute I can save a person from doing these kinds of tasks means I get them back to their desk a minute sooner," says Goodnight. Assuming...
DIED. ANNALENA TONELLI, 60, Italian aid worker who spent more than three decades helping sick Somalians; after being shot on the grounds of a 200-bed hospital that she founded; in Borama, Somalia. Tonelli was awarded the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees' top honor in April for her work combating tuberculosis, aids, malnutrition and female-genital mutilation. She lived simply, eating the same food as her patients. "I would never believe that my life is a sacrifice," she told the Washington Post in 1993. "It is an idea that makes me laugh ... I often felt that there was nobody...
...breaking out of its traditional elderly, agrarian base to attract younger and more liberal voters - like Pierre-Alain Favre, a 42-year-old computer programmer from Geneva who has always voted for more moderate parties. "Every night I see African drug dealers on the streets and I'm getting sick of it," he says. "I want these people out, so this year I'm voting for the SVP." If the party wins big on Sunday - it currently leads the polls with 25% - Switzerland's placid political culture could be in for a shake...