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...wood-treatment industry. The industry counters that it has been left alone because it deserves to be--and the case it makes has some merit. If CCA were as deadly as some say, factory workers who make the stuff and carpenters who work with it ought to be falling ill in droves. Yet no one reports a measurable increase in disease among these groups. "Certainly, if there were a danger, it would show up," says Mel Pine, spokesman for the American Wood Preservers' Institute...
...than 4,000 Americans on any given day are waiting for a heart transplant. Because of a shortage of donors, about a third of them will die before a suitable replacement can be found. So when surgeons in Louisville, Ky., sewed a high-tech artificial heart into a desperately ill man last week, it seemed like the answer to a lot of prayers. The patient, whose name has not been released, is described as a diabetic in his mid to late 50s who developed congestive heart failure after suffering several heart attacks. If he survives and his health improves even...
...learned to embrace his suffering, citing the Russian proverb that "if you wake up feeling no pain, you know you're dead." Depression has taught him "what it means to be human, what is good in being human." It has allowed him to come to terms with his terminally ill mother's suicide and forced him to confront his confusion over his sexuality. Solomon apologizes that "no book can span the reach of human suffering." This one comes close...
...There's no middle ground here, but they're trying to find a way to try Pinochet without having him tried, if that makes sense. He is ill, he forgets things here and there - it is questionable whether he is really unable to stand trial, but the fact is that he is very ill, and I guess this is a good compromise...
...ruling came after a weekend of rumors that Pinochet had died, said Edwards. "His family came forth promptly and said 'no, he's alive but very ill,'" said Edwards. "Some people are saying that those rumors were spread in anticipation of this ruling...