Word: closed
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...something about hospice and mentioned it to her mother. When Alice asked Lucy's doctor, he was almost relieved. "He told me he had been wanting to talk to me about it," she said. It was Renee who knew it would be the best thing. "We're a really close family," Renee said as she sat with Lucy's fragile hand in hers last July. "It wasn't really a hard decision because we knew she'd need the love and support of her family...
Along with his wife, who was able to care for him full time, he had a circle of close friends that included a couple of nurses, one of them a bereavement counselor; an ethicist who specialized in medical issues; several doctors; and a former patient, Steve Kalafer, who years earlier had been treated by Frimmer for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, now in remission...
...hunt, foes argue, let the bears deplete their natural food supply, which would cause their numbers to drop--assuming, that is, they avoid the local Dairy Queen Dumpster. "Trophy hunting solves nothing," says Wayne Pacelle of the Humane Society of the U.S. "People should bear-proof their garbage and close their windows while cooking...
...Hero-Martyr Joe Kennedy Jr. (blown up over the English Channel on a virtual suicide mission) and of Hero Jack Kennedy (PT 109)--had to claw his way to a sense of worth. "He was brave," Thomas writes, "because he was afraid. His monsters were too large and close at hand to simply flee. He had to turn and fight them...He became a one-man underground, honeycombed with hidden passages, speaking in code, trusting no one completely...Although he affected simplicity and directness, he became an extraordinarily complicated and subtle...
...Close encounters, yes, but not by chance. Last week, when Iranian President MOHAMMED KHATAMI found himself in the same rooms with President BILL CLINTON and Secretary of State MADELEINE ALBRIGHT, it was actually part of unprecedented reciprocal gestures between Tehran and Washington choreographed by U.N. Secretary-General KOFI ANNAN...