Word: uncertainities
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Lawless ultimately traced her infection to someone she had dated during college who had contracted the virus through a blood transfusion. Despite her uncertain future, she and her boyfriend of five years, Jim Hughes, who remained uninfected, decided to marry. But starting a family was not part of the plan for the couple, who practiced safe sex. "I thought HIV was a death sentence, and we weren't even sure I'd make it to the wedding the next year, let alone have children...
...Hugheses have taken some criticism for their decision to have children when Kelli's life expectancy is uncertain, but they are confident that they have made the right choice. And they are quick to point out that there's no guarantee any mother will be around to see a child grow...
...bosses who agreed with this point of view. Joanne Hayes-White, a mother of three and the first woman to head a major city fire department [in San Francisco], told me she actually thinks mothers have an edge as fire fighters, since there is a lot of coping with uncertain and hectic schedules, distractions, changes in plans, need to multitask and care for people. She also sees a clear spillover in her strengthened ability to multitask, from home to office. I've talked to grocery clerks and software executives who say the same thing...
...Cutler knows that he is being used. Even so, his sexual itch drives him to theft, fraud and murder. Each crime makes him more subject to blackmail. The tale moves toward its climax with a mounting sense of catastrophe, but who will destroy whom, and how, remains uncertain until the final pages. Hansen writes as ably as anyone in the genre about the consequences of lust and yearning. For the nonprurient, the descriptive passages of lovemaking are kept brief...
...didn't know what to make of Marla Ruzicka. Young, blonde, relentlessly buoyant and sometimes giggly, she stood out among the tired, cynical hacks and aid workers that usually populate war zones, so much so that battle-weary journalists nicknamed her "Bubbles" in the early days, uncertain what to make of this gregarious life force that had dropped in our midst. In Kabul and Baghdad during the past few years, Marla was the life of the party. She would rent a house for a day, arrange food and drink and then fire off e-mails to friends and colleagues inviting...