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...costs $250,000, that their insurance doesn't cover it and that they're required to post a $75,000 deposit or their sick son will be sent packing. While it's true that hospitals expect to be reimbursed for services provided to even the neediest and most grievously ill patients, it's not true that they handle things in so mercenary a manner. "That's Hollywood," says Anne Paschke, spokeswoman for the United Network for Organ Sharing. "The fact is, there are a lot of things that would prevent that from happening in the real world...
Donna Coughlin, who administers the SAT in Winnetka, Ill., says the surge in "midget" test takers makes for "a brutal morning." Young kids ask endless questions, do more fidgeting, need more bathroom breaks and are more apt to throw...
Certainly nobody predicted the effect the phrase "asbestos liability" has had on the stock prices of Viacom, Halliburton and 3M, which have also taken recent hits. What is more disturbing, however, is that evidence suggests the number of recent claimants who are actually ill is on the decline; in other words, the number of healthy claimants is climbing. "The bulk of these people have no impairment," says Steven Kazan, a lawyer who represents only patients sick with asbestos-related diseases. In 1999, 12% of the Manville Trust's 31,700 claimants were sick with asbestos-related ills. Last year...
...special forces died at the battle of Mogadishu in 1993?the subject of the film Black Hawk Down?some relatives of the dead thought their sons had been betrayed by their political leaders, while many citizens felt guilty about allowing men to be placed in danger for an ill-defined purpose...
...Best Hotels: The most romantic place to stay is the Régent Petite France, a luxurious former ice-works spanning the Ill River (5 Rue des Moulins, 03 88 76 43 43). Travelers on tighter budgets could try the Hotel Suisse, next to the cathedral (2-4 Rue de la R?pe...