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...last hours of Pop.com were laced with irony worthy of a movie by Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard--who, as it happens, were co-founders of the ill-fated website. Every Friday afternoon for the past few months, Pop's 85 employees had gathered in their Glendale, Calif., warehouse to sip beers and slap backs for the films they already had in the can: shorts starring Rene Russo, Steve Martin, Claudia Schiffer. Last Friday, just two weeks before the planned launch, they were chugging beers to drown their sorrows and being eyed by security guards to make sure they didn...
...harsh life would only worsen as low levels of oxygen in her blood further destroyed her brain and that stopping delivery of Jodie's blood wouldn't be a positive act of killing but a passive by-product of saving Jodie, like withdrawing food and water from a terminally ill patient--which is legal in Britain and the U.S. under certain conditions...
...Americans say they want to die at home; instead, three-fourths die in medical institutions. More than a third of dying people spend at least 10 days in intensive-care units, where they often endure torturous (generally futile) attempts at a cure. Specialists say 95% of pain in terminally ill people can be mollified, but studies show that nearly half of Americans die in pain, surrounded and treated by strangers. A recent survey found that 3 out of 5 physicians treating dying patients had known them less than a week...
...While most eyes were on the harbor, the first gold medal was awarded elsewhere. It went to an American (no surprise) in women's 10-meter air rifle (huge surprise). Nancy Johnson's dad was "a big hunter when I was growing up in Downers Grove, Ill., and he encouraged me when I joined a juniors program at a rifle club three blocks away." She was 15 then. She's 26 now - and a champion. At another outback venue, the velodrome, Australian cyclist Michelle Ferris took silver in the 500-meter time trial...
...even the gloomiest of forecasts could have predicted as ill-fated a start to the season as Harvard has had. By the time of the team's season opener against No. 11 Texas A&M two weeks ago, injuries had already ravaged nearly half of the Crimson's talented sophomore class. Forwards Beth Totman and Caitlin Butler, as well as goalkeeper Cheryl Gunther, were all sidelined with various types of leg problems...