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...Cathy's flickering hope that her baby sister, 35, had somehow escaped from the 102nd floor of the north tower, that she might, as Cathy liked to fantasize, have "met this cute guy on the elevator down and locked eyes and run off to Fiji." Stricken, Marchese-Collins did what she has done all year whenever she cannot fathom the new horrors of this ordeal: she called Diane Leonard, a widow of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the one person in Marchese-Collins' life who has survived the debris, the morgue, the memorials and the pain. "The wonderful thing...
...learn about diseases through the faces of those who are stricken. Famous faces garner the most attention, obviously. When we think of Alzheimer's, my father's face comes to mind. Or Iris Murdoch's. And now Heston's. When Parkinson's is mentioned, we picture Michael J. Fox or Muhammad...
...cavity probe. In the early morning hours of the first day of the festival, each act is asked to send a representative for what is described as an "extremely important meeting." There, the organizers announce that six songs?including five by rap-metal act Miserable Faith?have been stricken by local government sponsors for unhealthy lyrical content. The band originally scheduled to go on second, Masturbation (whose singer has a penchant for removing his clothes onstage), is bumped further back in the lineup so that local party officials, unlikely to stay too late, won't be exposed to its antics...
...skin singed off his arms, back and buttocks. His grandfather treated his burns with cooking oil for two years before Taniguchi was able to resume his job as a mail carrier. The museum also has video testimonies from other victims, among them an American woman whose sister was stricken with leukemia following nuclear testing near the family's home in the U.S.?a reminder that in the nuclear age, no one is safe...
...happy example of what can happen when drug companies move to assist countries in need. Sadly, there are many countries left without this kind of aid. And until a reasonable compromise can be reached between the financial responsibilities of pharmaceutical companies and the economic realities of AIDS-stricken nations, the best hope appears to lie in the manufacture and distribution of cut-price "copycat" drugs, like those created in India and sold to Uganda's government at drastically reduced prices. Since the introduction of these drugs in Uganda, a country devastated by AIDS, prices for treatments have fallen...