Word: processing
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...moved it to a lifeless desert northeast of Reno in 1990 when the S.F. beach patrol kicked him off. Since then, he has nurtured his festival into a lengthy ritual that this Labor Day attracted 30,000 campers to its mix of art, raves, nudity and spirituality. In the process, much has changed. Harvey has driven out some of his original anarchy-loving partners, instituted streets and rules (no guns), and now controls much of the art through $250,000 in grants. He is the director of a limited-liability corporation that oversees the festival's $4 million annual budget...
Conjoined twins are rare, occurring once in 50,000 to 100,000 births. They happen when the fertilized egg starts splitting into twins but the process stalls, leaving a partly separated embryo that matures into a conjoined fetus. Many are aborted or stillborn. Surgical separations often fail, depending on how many organs are shared. At a leading U.S. center for this work, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 14 sets of twins have been separated since 1957. Seventeen children survived, and both twins lived in seven cases...
...plan assiduously for retirement. Yet about a third of Americans bankrupt their families in the process of dying. Sometimes they don't want all the IVs and monitors and bills yet suffer them anyway. Even in 1997, 30 years after the first living will was written in the U.S. to prevent overtreatment, 1 in 10 dying Americans said in a survey that his wishes were ignored. Too often, in the words of the Rev. George Caldwell, who ministers to the dying in Virginia, people die in "the final, tiny, helpless cosmos of a hospital...
...care about the political process...
That's what Terri Bonoff did last year, surprising even herself in the process. Bonoff, a hard-charging marketing executive, was convinced that her son Joey needed her more than ever--and his younger brother and two younger step-siblings were right behind him. Over Joey's objections, she resigned...