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MARIA RAMIREZ, 39, COMMERCE CITY, COLORADO: Teacher This year's Bilingual Teacher of the Year was born to migrant farm workers and grew up weeding crops throughout the Northwest. Ramirez went on to win a college scholarship, only to be stricken with a brain tumor in her junior year. After a long recovery she earned a master's degree. She now teaches Spanish to the staff in her school district, which is 47% Hispanic, as well as English to immigrants. "If you have a dream," she says, "work toward...
Women in comas have given birth before, usually to children conceived before the women were stricken. And by tradition, barring a living will, doctors honor a family's perception of a coma victim's wishes. The New York woman had been a devout Roman Catholic. Says Ellen Moskowitz, a lawyer and ethicist at the Hastings Center, "It seems reasonable to conclude this is the kind of decision she would have wanted...
Buchanan doesn't sound like he's faking it. He says he's sorry now for all those years spent flacking for Big Business as a mainstream Republican operative. He claims his conversion came on the 1991 campaign trail when he met some poverty-stricken New Hampshirites and discovered they weren't, as he might have thought, degenerates and dope fiends but "the type of fellows I played ball with." And of course sooner or later some candidate--even one as sheltered as the Beltway insider Buchanan--had to trip over the bodies of the downsized and notice that...
DIED. RICHARD VERSALLE, 63, tenor; of an apparent heart attack; at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Poised on a ladder, Versalle was performing the opening scene of The Makropulos Case when he was stricken and fell to the stage. He had just sung the line, "You can only live so long...
...recipients around the country, may have saved for their retirement, but their care remains either unaffordable or unmanageable. Lois Horn neglected her now bankrupt lamp business to care for her aging mother until the burden became too much. The 89-year-old mother currently lives, wheelchair bound and dementia-stricken, in the Carondelet Holy Family Center in Tucson, which costs more than $3,000 a month. "We don't have the money to pay for her care. She has to have assistance. I've given up taking her home for holidays, like I used to do, because...