Word: cot
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Melia Tabono lies semiconscious on a cot, her swollen face glistening with sweat and sand. An intravenous tube drips saline solution into her veins, as a friend, Thelma Nonatura, a fellow Filipino, desperately fans a piece of cardboard to combat the 95 degrees heat. Six weeks ago, Tabono, 38, worked as a seamstress in Kuwait City. Now she is among tens of thousands of refugees struggling to survive in a strip of scorched desert between Iraq and Jordan. "Our lives have been destroyed," murmurs Nonatura. "I can't feel anything anymore...
...next cot an elderly Sri Lankan woman shakes uncontrollably, her frail body racked by thirst, hunger and the blistering heat. "I've never seen anything like this," says Dr. Khaled Abu-Halimeh of the Jordanian Red Crescent Society, who treats 60 patients a day in the makeshift medical tent. "Without more water, medicine and food, we'll be faced with a disaster...
...second floor of Kuwait Red Crescent hospital in Peshawar, in the farthest bed next to a window, the sprawled body takes up only a fragment of the cot. Rahmat Hussain, 10, is not the only child on the floor, but he is the most seriously injured. Most of the time, the bandaged wound is covered by a thin, dirty green blanket. With a tentative smile, as if offering a guest a cup of tea, his older brother, Tor Kham, volunteers to pull back the blanket...
...public campground 2,000 miles away from her home, Janet Adkins faced death last week. It took the form of an odd-looking contraption made mostly of three dripping bottles, the invention of a Detroit doctor named Jack Kevorkian. As Adkins settled down on a small cot, she was attended by Kevorkian. He hooked her up to a heart monitor, slid an intravenous needle into her arm and started a harmless saline solution flowing through the tube. Then he sat back and watched the monitor as she pushed a big red button at the base of the machine. Immediately...
Kevorkian, meanwhile, was searching for a place to accomplish the deed. The hotels, vacant office buildings and funeral parlors he approached all turned him down. So he resurrected his 1968 Volkswagen, bought the cot and some clean sheets. Without the aid of any hospital or lab, Kevorkian confirmed an Alzheimer's diagnosis and judged Adkins lucid. Two days later, they drove to a public park that had electrical outlets for campers. "There was no other place I could do it," he says. "My landlord would have thrown...