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...Rosa was a Medicaid mother of three with a painful wrist. In her early twenties, with no husband, on child-support, she was a typical patient from "the neighborhood". Rosa was pretty saucy though; she let you know she didn't like waiting, she was snappy during her interview, she made sure I wrote her out prescriptions for all the medication I recommended, even the over-the-counter ones. This way they would all be paid-for. She spoke no English, and she even poked fun at my clinic Spanish. I made a note of it in her chart...
...next cubicle was a woman more like the old Rosa - no job, no husband. She had been injected and splinted and was still in pain - though less, I felt, than Rosa. I gave the explanation in Spanish with help from my bilingual resident...
...husband, he was a lying, selfish prick," says John March's latest client about the celebrity Wall Street analyst she wants him to track down--not because she misses the creep but because she and her lesbian lover need his child-support checks. The case leads March, a former sheriff's investigator with a dead wife and a shadowy past, into a snake pit of betrayal and double dealing--the paranoid underside of the dotcom boom. Spiegelman worked in financial services and software for more than 20 years before taking up fiction. He knows how thin...
...compared with Cincinnati, Ohio, janitors like Jones. For working a 9:30 p.m.--to--6 a.m., 40-hr.-a-week schedule, she earns $12.52 an hour and gets health insurance, three weeks' vacation and three personal days a year. Her $26,000 annual salary has helped Gray and her husband--who works for a company that erects cell-phone towers--buy their own home, send their two daughters to college and even go on the occasional family vacation--in May they took their first trip to Honolulu, Hawaii...
Gupta later separated from her husband. But she stuck with Bombay, and the city quickly became attached to her. She did her first fashion shoot in January 2001, and within three months she was signed as the face of Lakme cosmetics. Today she is India's top model, representing Christian Dior, 7Up and Kingfisher Airlines. She has an annual calendar and a song-and-dance show, and is a fixture on the gossip pages; a book and an album are up next...