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...heart. So when it got the chance, the chronicler of high finance went for it with a tabloid's hunger for gossipy detail. The subject: LEONA HELMSLEY, 80. The hotelier and ex-convict had been telling confidants that she was dating her real estate empire's vice chairman, Patrick Ward, 45, and that the two were considering marriage. Apparently, she was totally unaware, until an associate told her, that Ward is gay. Ward left the company in late January but only after purchasing a 60-unit New York City apartment complex from Helmsley for less than $1 million--a seriously...
BONUS SHOT Meningitis vaccinations are agonizing for babies, but they pack an unexpected bonus--fewer ear infections. A Finnish study shows that meningitis vaccines ward off 6% of all ear infections. That may not sound like much, but U.S. children under five come down with 25 million ear infections each year, and the vaccine could prevent 1.5 million of them. That would reduce antibiotic use among kids--and wear and tear on parents...
...crib No. 17 of the spartan but crowded children's ward at the Church of Scotland Hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, a tiny, staring child lies dying. She is three and has hardly known a day of good health. Now her skin wrinkles around her body like an oversize suit, and her twig-size bones can barely hold her vertical as nurses search for a vein to take blood. In the frail arms hooked up to transfusion tubes, her veins have collapsed. The nurses palpate a threadlike vessel on the child's forehead. She mews like a wounded animal...
...Annick DeBaets, 32, is a volunteer from Belgium. In the two years she has spent here in Tugela Ferry, she has learned all about how hard it is to break the cycle of HIV transmission from mother to infant. The door to this 48-cot ward is literally a revolving one: sick babies come in, receive doses of rudimentary antibiotics, vitamins, food; go home for a week or a month; then come back as ill as ever. Most, she says, die in the first or second year. If she could just follow up with really intensive care, believes Dr. DeBaets...
Final club members and representatives of Sigma Chi, the largest campus fraternity, say they try to take precautions to ward off harassment and assault as result of drinking...