Word: treating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shacochis, 37, shows an ability uncommon among younger writers to treat sensitively, without condescension, the perils of middle and old age. Celebrations of the New World portrays a Fourth of July family gathering in Philadelphia, the first full-scale meeting of the narrator's relatives and those of his wife. The scene is crowded and confusing at first, but the focus eventually comes to rest on the father-in-law, Bernie Alazar, who is experiencing the progressive deterioration of Alzheimer's disease. Nothing can save Bernie in the long run, but this story, the best in the book, provides moments...
...mountain pass in northern Ethiopia. In the vehicles are members of a European medical team on their way to staff a hospital in territory captured by guerrillas. Thousands of miles away another medical corps travels with a caravan of packhorses through rugged terrain into Afghanistan. There its members will treat victims of the war between the Afghan resistance and the Soviet-backed government. At a headquarters building in Paris, shortwave-radio antennas turn toward Africa. A faraway voice reports that a cholera epidemic has struck refugees fleeing Mozambique's civil war. Within 48 hours, prepackaged containers filled with medical supplies...
Around the world, volunteers risk their lives to treat the suffering in areas devastated by wars and natural disasters. In the waiting room: more than 2 billion people...
...stay awake until midnight. Then the doorbell rang. An Open Hand volunteer walked in with a box decorated with streamers and balloons. It contained champagne, pate, cheese, truffles, a hat and a noisemaker. The men broke down and cried. This New Year's Eve Open Hand brought the same treat to everybody on its list...
...technology or the trained personnel to dispose of it. Foreign contractors in many African or Asian countries still build plants without including costly waste-disposal systems. Where new technology is available, it is too often inappropriate. In Lagos, Nigeria, five new incinerator plants stand idle because they can only treat garbage containing less than 20% water; most of the city's garbage is 30% to 40% liquid...