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Fueled by Wall Street speculation and the rapidly aging U.S. population, assisted-living residences in the past few years have popped up in nearly every suburb and city. Today there are at least 10,000 facilities, 90% of which have been built in the past decade, according to the American Seniors Housing Association. They house nearly 800,000 elderly Americans. But the boom has been accompanied by widespread allegations of substandard care, neglect and even preventable death. Year after year, Washington politicians take aim at problems in nursing homes, often proposing scores of new guidelines for an industry that...
...summer of 1998, Alterra was opening a facility every three days, quickly becoming the largest U.S. assisted-living provider. The memory-care center in Eagan, a fast-growing suburb of St. Paul, Minn., opened that August; in 10 months it filled its 52 beds. Glossy brochures promised "peace of mind, for you and your loved one." Families said they were told there would be a 1-to-7 ratio of staff to residents. But the primary caregivers, who were often paid less than $9 an hour, didn't just have their seven or so residents to care for; they also...
...with jagged limestone karsts towering over the languorous Nam Xong river. But what more of these kids are finding so hard to abandon is the lifestyle of limitless freedom and cheap, plentiful drugs. "You can do anything you want here," says David Constantine, 22, an Italian from a Milanese suburb. "Go hiking in the hills, explore a cave, have a few pipes, smoke dope in your room all day. Whatever...
...addition to their day job, do the driving, gather the intelligence, tell the boss his floor speech was positively Jeffersonian. Authorities want to know whether Dayton's duties went beyond that. First they want to know what happened the night he reportedly drove Condit to a Virginia suburb to dispose of a case that once contained a watch that had been given to the Congressman by a former staff member, Joleen Argentini McKay. Second, they want to hear more about Dayton's recent conversations with McKay. McKay told USA Today that she had had an affair with Condit when...
...Many years later, Abe visited Pearl Harbor again, this time as part of a tour group. Today, retired from Japan's Self-Defense Force, he lives in a small apartment in Koganei, a suburb of Tokyo, his living room decorated with a small American flag and finger-sized replicas of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara. Recently, Abe shared his recollections...