Word: visitations
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...always the same old song and dance.Yet first-generation South Asian immigrants, often guilty of penning the most terrifically clichéd novels of all, are also the most powerfully placed to guide the way out. Many Indian writers working in English live in the States or visit often, and they usually have the political freedom and socioeconomic means to innovate. Classmates in Jhumpa Lahiri’s creative-writing workshop at Boston University envied her for never having to cast about for topics, her own Bengali heritage lending her exotic source material every week; they should have criticized...
Lobsang Gyaltsen was allowed a visit by his mother before he was executed, it said...
...World-renowned primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall is impressed by the legislation but sees it as only a first step. "What do you do with all those animals?" she asked TIME on a visit to La Paz earlier this month. "That is the nightmare." (See the top 10 animal stories...
...While on the run, he was protected by 80 armed men and was able to visit his wife regularly; in 2004 he published Miraculous Chronicles of the Night, a novel set in 1980s Yugoslavia, which won a Serbian book prize. A year later he released a book of poems, Under the Left Breast of the Century...
...excise tax is just one of many ways the government and employers are hoping to change employee behavior. The days of paying a $15 or $25 co-pay for a visit to a specialist are slowly being replaced by co-insurance, a throwback to old-fashioned indemnity plans in which patients pay 10%-20% of the actual cost of each doctor's visit, lab test, procedure or prescription. When it comes to employee health, companies are going to stress "personal responsibility," says Kent Lonsdale, an executive vice president with the consulting firm Gallagher Benefit Services...