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...improbably, began his career working for a company that manufactured paint-by-number sets. After many years as a graphic designer and an art director for major advertising firms, he returned to illustration in 1971, working out of his Connecticut home. Last week Dick died of complications from septic shock syndrome...
...crabgrass, more brown than green. My dad tries to keep it in shape, but there are too many bald spots--most of them made by our dog pacing back and forth. And there are patches where the grass is a little too green and full--most noticeably over the septic tank...
...Americans a year, many of them surgical patients and trauma victims. Last week researchers at the University of California at San Diego reported a major victory in the war against these microbes. Using injections of a biotech product called monoclonal antibodies in patients suffering from toxic infections and septic shock, they reduced the expected death rate 40%, in some cases rescuing patients from the brink of death. The advance comes just in time for soldiers who might be wounded in the gulf...
Robbins is fed up, as well he might be, with the murderous tribalism that so often is the public face of organized religion. He sets in motion an American tel-evangelist whose septic inspiration it is to blow up the Dome of the Rock, the holy Muslim shrine in Jerusalem, thus bringing on World War III, the Second Coming of Christ and Judgment...
...York City, she wanted to aid leprosy sufferers in India. She never made it to Asia, but in 1973 her Philadelphia-based religious order, Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity, sent her to the Deep South. "I never dreamed that I'd be working with septic tanks, wiring, let alone moving houses," she says, "but when people are poor and depressed, you want to do anything you can to uplift them...