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Bush might have won some of these fights, legislators say, if he had worked a little harder to stroke Congress. Ted Stevens, the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, joined Democratic chairman Robert Byrd in an angry letter to Bush two weeks ago over Bush's refusal to allow Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge to testify before Congress. Republican Congressman Ernest Istook, who chairs the House subcommittee that controls the Office of Homeland Security's budget, hinted that he might hold up funds unless Ridge comes forth. (After all that, the White House began talking about a compromise...
...find alternative housing, such as assisted living, should you need it. For Minneapolis, Minn., widow Rosalie Alden, 81, a retired physical therapist with no children, the solution is a support network right in her own backyard. Two sets of neighbors take Alden, who has survived cancer and a stroke, to see her doctor and run errands. They have keys to her home and see her almost daily, and one neighbor phones every evening to check on her. Alden's two nieces have power of attorney, and they are successor trustees in her revocable trust. "This is all part...
...major, life-altering illness long before it happens or before they start to see changes in their health, says Rose Glamoclija, registered nurse and owner of Boca Nursing Services, a Boca Raton, Fla., geriatric-care agency. "If you get to the point where you're alone and suffer a stroke, it's too late," says Glamoclija...
...McCarthy. The first woman elected to the Senate was Arkansas's Hattie Wyatt Caraway who was appointed to fill her husband's term in 1932 and was elected on her own later that year. Edith Wilson effectively ran the White House after husband Woodrow was waylaid by a stroke. Today, there are still plenty of widows on the political scene, including two from Missouri, Sen. Jean Carnahan and Rep. JoAnn Emerson and two California House members, Mary Bono, wife of the famed Sonny, and Lois Capps...
...just fine on less, and some of us actually sleep too much. A study out of the University of Buffalo last month reported that people who routinely sleep more than eight hours a day and are still tired are nearly three times as likely to die of stroke--probably as a result of an underlying disorder that keeps them from snoozing soundly...