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...correct them." Karen Wayne, president of the Assisted Living Federation of America, one of the industry's main trade groups, says problems such as those at the Eagan center have been exaggerated. "When you look at the number of people we serve," she says, "these are isolated accidents and tragic events...
...emotional sentencing hearing this week, Nate read a statement as defense lawyers tried to persuade the judge to spare him life in prison. "Words cannot really explain how sorry I am," Nate told the judge, "but they're all I have." His mother, Polly Powell, blamed herself for the tragic turn in her son's life. While he may have been an A-student at school, he was surrounded by domestic abuse and alcoholism at home. She never made good choices in men, she said. The cops had gone to the family's house five times on domestic violence calls...
...China may have Starbucks, but it's still a fascinating place," says Sutherland, who plays a Western director coming to grips with the mysteries of the Middle Kingdom. Filmed in Beijing's august Forbidden City, Big Shot critiques the consumerism sweeping the capital today. "Xiaogang captures the hilarious and tragic contradictions of Chinese society," says his star, "like no one else...
...buzz of chain saws and those decomposing corpses were warnings that Van Schaik, and the orangutans he was studying, were running out of time. If these noble great apes were driven to extinction, as now seemed likely, that would mean more than the tragic passing of another of God's creatures, it would also mean losing some potential understanding of ourselves. For 25 years, the Duke University primatologist had been chasing orangutans through the swamps of Sumatra. Now he was starting to achieve startling new insights into some of our most fundamental questions: What made us men and not monkeys...
...acceptance?not to fight his disability but to learn to work within it; not to transcend it but to understand fully what he was capable of achieving within it; not to pretend he had sight but to build systems that allowed him to excel without it. "It's tragic?I know blind people who like to pass themselves off as being able to see," Erik says. "What's the point of that...