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...aware of your family's health history. If Alzheimer's, stroke or other degenerative illnesses run in your family, you are a prime candidate to buy coverage while in your 50s. Once an ailment surfaces, expect to pay 10% more right away--and that's if you can get coverage...
Shop around. Different carriers have different areas of expertise, and they price coverage accordingly. If you're a diabetic, you'll probably get a better rate at John Hancock than Genworth; if you've had a stroke, you'll probably get a better deal at MedAmerica than John Hancock. So get bids from at least three carriers, and see if long-term-care insurance makes sense for you. The cost of care is only going to get higher...
...collection, whom she will marry - while Fitzgerald is left behind in Ottawa to retake his exams. In the finest story in the book, Night Flight, we see Fitzgerald, now a medevac doctor with an incipient drinking problem, fly to Guatemala to rescue a young man who has had a stroke. Tightly sprung and impeccably paced, the story's devastating ending is followed by a coda of such searing yet sympathetic honesty that you are left feeling winded by its flawed humanity...
...Mwanawasa thereafter became known as a politician who was never afraid to challenge corruption and greed. He was one of the first African leaders to speak out against the Zimbabwean despot Robert Mugabe, lamenting the plight of the neighboring country as a "catastrophe." Two months after suffering a debilitating stroke, he died in Paris...
...seconds behind Phelps - on Saturday.) That time, it was Phelps who streaked to the wall while still underwater, as Crocker remained airborne. But in an instinctive split-second decision this time around, Phelps made the right one to come up before his touch. "When I did chop that last stroke I really thought it cost me the race," he said. "I ended up making the right decision. Trying to take a short fast stroke to try to get my hand on the wall first turned out to be in my favor." His coach agreed. "In that situation...