Word: widowing
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That's certainly true of Karen, 47, a human-resources manager in Los Angeles who developed serious bulimia after her husband died in 1991. Karen, who prefers not to reveal her full name, admits she has never had a healthy relationship with food and that, as a new widow, she found herself going on binges that lasted days, followed by days and even weeks of fasting. It took her years to get help. She looked for a program in which others could identify with her issues of loss and aging. This summer she turned to San Diego's Puente...
...enough for Merck shareholders that the firm's top drugs, Zocor and Fosamax, are going off patent over the next three years and that the pipeline looks thin. Now investors may have to stomach another bitter pill. A Texas jury last week awarded $253.5 million to the widow of a man who died after taking the painkiller Vioxx. In the first verdict reached in more than 4,000 liability cases involving the drug--which Merck recalled last year after studies indicated a possible link to heart failure--the award cast doubt on Merck's strategy of fighting each case individually...
AILING. CORETTA SCOTT KING, 78, widow of slain civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.; from a heart attack and stroke; in Atlanta. The stroke affected the right side of her body, impairing her speech and requiring physical therapy...
Hard on the heels of Jennings' death was the mind-numbing announcement that Dana Reeve, widow of actor Christopher Reeve and a nonsmoker, has lung cancer. It was a sobering reminder that about 15% of lung-cancer victims have never smoked...
...activist, a member of the Catholic peace group Pax Christi. But Ben's independent streak led him to join the Army just out of high school. His death has made Colgan's personal pacifism surprisingly divisive. While Colgan and his wife Pat remain opposed to the war, Ben's widow Jill and other family members are equally ardent supporters. "I didn't think this would be so difficult," he says. "It's one of the saddest things. It's put a crimp in our relationships." Colgan says he sees very similar dysfunction in the national feuding over Iraq...