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...frantic search with another fishing boat and a Coast Guard launch and helicopter turned up not a trace. Rignola and Farriel were left to break the news to Bob's wife and their two children, Lisa and Eric, then...
...substantially to the public record about DeLorean's arrest for cocaine dealing, but the author makes a strong case for DeLorean's systematic looting of his infant firm. Levin charges that he used a shell corporation in Geneva called GPD Services to siphon off $17.65 million. No trace of the money has turned up, but the suspicion is that DeLorean walked away with at least some...
...strongest expedition climber. He talks with the rocklike confidence of all the mountain world's hard men, saying, for instance, that Everest by the traditional Hillary-Tenzing route is "a good holiday, but not really challenging." Messner has never used oxygen in his life, he says with a trace of pride. But he offers freely the opinion that his memory has been dulled by long periods of oxygen deprivation. There have been other prices. His brother Gunther died in an avalanche while climbing with him on Nanga Parbat, in the Himalayas. Messner has lost several toes and parts...
...problem that bothered him: babies available for adoption were being kept in institutions until the age of four months because doctors were reluctant to certify that any younger infant was fully normal. "Four months is just too long to deprive anybody of a new baby," Brazelton recalls, with a trace of a Texas drawl that has survived his years in Boston. "That led me to say, 'Well, gosh, anybody can tell whether a new baby's O.K. or not. What is it we're going by?' Then I began to put together all these things that...
...directed an internationally acclaimed effort to reduce avoidable blindness among tribes in rural Kenya. At Nyeri Provincial Hospital near snow-capped Mount Kenya, Whitfield trains paramedics and clinical officers in outlying districts to combat such prevalent eye diseases as glaucoma and trachoma. He also conducts pioneering surveys that trace the spread of blindness in deprived areas...