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Ella's other sons, John and Robert, visit periodically, but James shoulders the caretaking. Until she got sick, Ella was a no-nonsense home-maker who was no stranger to the back of a motorcycle and gave the finger to anyone who dared laugh at "the old woman on the bike." She remains strong spirited despite losing 70 lbs. since December. Last month she had James, who plays guitar, take her to a nearby party for a jam session that lasted until 3 a.m. It was the first time either of them had left the house in months. James...
...every dispassionate contest pitting nature's noblemen against each other, there is, or ought to be, one in which a festering resentment sends a sick thrill through the arena. Why get mad? Because your rival got stupidly lucky. Because your rival took more effective drugs than you did. Because some friends of your rival clubbed you on the knee a month before the big skate. And maybe the real or imagined slight goads the grudging one to greatness. Revenge spurs nearly every movie plot; why shouldn't it juice the adrenaline that an athlete needs to excel...
...targeted at people with complicated middle-class lives. The jackpot winner under Gore would be a family making, say, $35,000 a year that has a child in day care (a tax credit of up to $2,160), another in college (a credit of up to $2,800), a sick mother in a nursing home (a $3,000 credit) and a retirement-savings plan (a federal match of up to $2,000). Gore would also expand the earned-income tax credit, a subsidy for people earning too little to be taxed, and eliminate the marriage-tax penalty for some couples...
...examinations are going to turn up some fatal disease, my wife and I were a bit apprehensive about putting our house through an environmental physical. I once interviewed a Texas woman who paid $350,000 for her dream home, only to find out after she moved in and got sick that the place was infested with a highly toxic mold and required a $650,000 cleanup, with men in moon suits cutting out every piece of mold-infested timber, wallboard and carpeting and carting it off for burial as toxic waste...
...renovated this 1935 Cape Cod in Bethesda, Md., three years ago, we did the usual engineering, radon and termite inspections. But like most other new homeowners, we knew nothing about what might be brewing behind the walls. Neither of us had any symptoms that might indicate this was a sick house. We had had a series of roof leaks over the past year, though. Were we next...