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...home counterparts) had been hospitalized in the previous year, a rate higher than for residents of nursing homes. And according to the report, most assisted-living staff do not have a basic understanding of the aging process: the vast majority thought, for example, that incontinence, confusion and depression were normal signs of aging rather than potentially reversible conditions. "There's absolutely no doubt that these facilities are more dangerous than nursing homes," says Karen Love, executive director of the Consumer Consortium on Assisted Living...
...command for Joseph Heller (Catch-22). This scarcely ever happened to American painters or sculptors. But to one in particular it did. It was war, as much as anything else, that made an artist out of H.C. (Horace Clifford) Westermann Jr., that imbued him with raucous suspicion of the "normal" life he was supposed to be defending and filled him with horrible sights, now bleak and now baroque, whose exorcism would become a lifetime task...
Relief is finally expected tonight as a cold front moves through the area, though the front may bring severe weather to the region. This weekend and next week temperatures are expected to be below normal...
...Worse still, the U.S. has been unable to muster the requisite international support to reinvigorate sanctions against Iraq by making them "smarter" - allowing the resumption of normal trade with Baghdad to assuage concerns about the toll 11 years of sanctions have taken on ordinary Iraqis, but tightening up controls on the sale of weapons or technologies that would improve the Iraqi war machine. Russia blocked the changes when the U.N. Security Council met to review sanctions against Iraq at the end of June, and the Arab neighbors on whom policing such "smart" sanctions would depend have been less than sanguine...
...normal society, there would be a variety of voices. This is an abnormal society. It's oppressive. One can hardly breathe - Bao Tong, a former aide to deposed Chinese communist leader Zhao Ziyang a U.N. draft accord on biological weapons. The agreement, which would have strengthened the 30-year ban on germ warfare, was effectively scuppered as U.S. representatives at the U.N. meeting in Geneva claimed it would not achieve its goals and would damage American interests. SPAIN Tourists Targeted Police in the southern tourist resort of M?laga defused a powerful car bomb planted by the Basque separatist organization...