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That's been true for Bill Highland, a retired electrician from Yuba City, Calif., who for the past two years has been battling searing pain in his shoulder blade and armpit from shingles. Highland tried a variety of drugs, but they brought only temporary relief. Finally he was referred to pain psychologist Ingela Symreng at the Pain Management Center at the University of California, Davis, to learn techniques that would help him control his pain. Symreng teaches patients relaxation exercises, breathing skills, guided imagery (focusing on pleasant mental images) and distraction techniques. Highland, 83, quickly became a master of deep...
Michael's yearlong stay with Inge, 56, a hair stylist, and her husband Jim, 60, an electrician, turned out to be the first in a string of stints by exchange students. He enlivened the house with his jokes, bonded with Jim over chopping wood and devoured Inge's cherry squirt cake. "He was just what the doctor ordered," Inge says...
...Oasis Group, a combination of Amerada Hess, Marathon Oil and Conoco. But a handful of American citizens are still at work in the facility and have been throughout the decades of sanctions, in violation of U.S. laws. "Basically, we never left," says Conrad B. Cazalas, 58, an electrician from Corpus Christi, Texas, sitting in Essider's dining hall in blue jeans and work boots. Days after U.S. officials ordered him out in 1986, Cazalas says, he called his Libyan colleagues and talked his way back into his old job. Darrell Livingston, 51, from Winter Haven, Florida, who works on Essider...
CONVICTED. DANIEL PELOSI, 41, an electrician; of the 2001 fatal beating of multimillionaire Wall Street banker Theodore Ammon in his East Hampton, N.Y., home; in Riverhead, N.Y. Against his lawyers' advice, the brash Pelosi, who had been romantically involved with Ammon's estranged wife, took the stand in his defense, testifying that he enjoyed zapping co-workers with a stun gun and would like to have used the gun on the lead prosecutor. He faces 25 years to life in prison...
...Boucher, an electrician with the in-house maintenance professionals working for Harvard’s Facilities and Maintenance Operations (FMO), said his job gives him stability that he would not get from an outside employer...