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ISABEL ALLENDE, the distinguished Chilean writer, was celebrating the publication of one of her novels at a Barcelona party in December 1991, when she got word that her daughter was in a hospital in Madrid. She flew to her side. "I love you too, Mama," the 27-year-old Paula murmured just before she was seized by convulsions and fell into a coma. She never woke up, and a year later she died in Allende's arms. "I had a choice," the author recalls. "Was I going to commit suicide? Sue the hospital? Or was I going to write...
...wrest control of the board from the somewhat more moderate helmsmanship of Washington and LaPierre, no putsch transpired. "The N.R.A. plays political games hard, inside and outside, but we are like a big family," says Knox. "Woe be unto you if you say something bad about our mama. We circle the wagons...
...Kinshasa, residents fretted about their relatives and friends in Kikwit-there are no phone links and now no movement between the two cities-and feared that Ebola might breach the quarantine. Says Cornaille Mbala, a senior nurse at Kinshasa's Mama Yemo Hospital: "When this sickness hits you, you die in one week. Of course we are all afraid." And around the world, but especially in the U.S., people sensitized to Ebola's horrors by a spate of books and movies-Richard Preston's chilling best seller The Hot Zone; the TV movie Robin Cook's 'Virus'; the film Outbreak...
...woman living in the Arizona trailer park where police found Colbern's truck today recalled a next-door neighbor named Steven who wore army fatigues, raised snakes and lizards, and left his trailer so dirty it stank. "He was a jerk. He's a lazy, no-good mama's boy," Maybelle Hertig, 70, told the Associated Press. She recalled that Steven had had packages of ammunition delivered to her trailer and other neighbors...
...only Maggie could have seen Mama when she'd stand up to read the minutes of the previous meetings of the PTA," Gates read. "It was poetry, pure poetry...