Word: sonly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...performance of Tchaikovsky. He panned for gold with little luck, tinkered with junked cars and lived on government disability payments that were based on a history of mental illness. Neighbors knew enough to keep a polite distance; he used to tell them he was John F. Kennedy's illegitimate son...
...upstate New York. During a discussion, when a monk (and a recovering alcoholic), repeatedly said, "God loves you," Nolan started sobbing. In a message she later posted on the Internet, she explained that "the God I met as a child was judgmental, condemning, did horrible things to his own son." But somehow here, in the most Catholic of places, she says, the wall fell...
...figuring the problem would pass. It didn't. Finally, as July 4 approached--when Lowery should have been at the Alpine, Wyo., gift shop where she works, preparing for the crush of campers and tourists who make the Independence Day weekend such a busy one--she noticed that her son Sean, 5, had come down with the same symptoms...
...mostly children, the elderly and people with compromised immune systems. In all cases, antibiotics are not only useless but may actually make things worse, causing the bacteria to rupture and spill their toxin even more widely throughout the gut. Says Nancy Donley, a safe-food activist whose son died of E. coli infection: "We're not talking about minor gastrointestinal distress. It is a brutally ugly death...
...seasonal work and unemployment is twice the national average, pride runs deep. A handshake binds a contract almost as often as a signature. So when a local writer walked unannounced into the office of Franklin Memorial Hospital president Richard Batt to explain that he could not pay for his son's hospitalization, Batt wanted to help the man meet his obligation honorably. After agreeing to adjust the bill, Batt asked--in an afterthought really--if the writer would help rework the hospital's brochures. "It was a transforming experience," Batt says. "This man arrived in tears and left feeling good...