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FIVE YEARS AGO, SIERRA TUCSON WAS the model of a happy farm for substance abusers. Thousands of people from across the country came to the manicured 325-acre "campus" to deal with their addictions to alcohol, drugs, food, sex or gambling among the saguaros and sagebrush in the foothills of Arizona's Santa Catalina mountains. It was a Cadillac of the substance-abuse centers, and a company-provided Cadillac at that: employee health insurance routinely covered most of the costs of the standard 30-day stay there. Today, Sierra Tucson is a different place. Where there used...
...their retirement, but their care remains either unaffordable or unmanageable. Lois Horn neglected her now bankrupt lamp business to care for her aging mother until the burden became too much. The 89-year-old mother currently lives, wheelchair bound and dementia-stricken, in the Carondelet Holy Family Center in Tucson, which costs more than $3,000 a month. "We don't have the money to pay for her care. She has to have assistance. I've given up taking her home for holidays, like I used to do, because you can't control her wandering," says Horn...
DIED. EVELYN WOOD, 86, educator; in Tucson, Arizona. In a nation where faster is synonymous with better, the Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics Institute, with its promise to boost reading speed from a dilatory 250 words per minute to a galloping 1,500--or more--made its diminutive founder an unlikely star when the institute opened in Washington in 1959. Presidents sent their staffs to learn the technique, developed by Wood from her study of naturally up-tempo readers, who she noted read pages from top to bottom, taking in whole thoughts in a single eyeful. Stunts like a class...
DIED. LAURENCE MCKINLEY GOULD, 98, geologist; in Tucson, Arizona. From 1928 to 1930, Gould trekked across part of Antarctica as second-in-command to Richard Byrd on Byrd's first expedition to the continent. Today maps of Antarctica are replete with Gould's name: Mount Gould, Gould Bay, Gould Glacier, Gould Coast...
...results were as impressive as they were diverse. One student group used the Internet to track acid rain on the polar ice cap. Another communicated with researchers kayaking through South America. A class from Tucson, Arizona, invented a modern version of hide-and-seek called Where Are We? in which players zero in on one another's location by exchanging hints through E-mail...