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...expose of the shocking conditions in nursing homes circa 1970. Woefully undertrained workers strapped patients to hard-backed chairs, fed them cheap diets and kept them in a whimpering state of sedation. There were tales of urine-soaked hospital gowns and of false teeth collected at night and thrown into a communal vessel that patients had to fish through in the morning. All this and more was documented by the National Academy of Sciences in 1986. The next year Congress passed legislation to address decades of abuse of the elderly by profiteering nursing-home operators...
...exciting," says sportswriter Steve Wulf. "And it is great to watch (Indians centerfielder) Kenny Lofton play. He shows how speed can affect a baseball game." The winning run came in the bottom of the 11th, when 39-year-old Eddie Murray fought off a high, inside fastball thrown by Braves reliever Alejandro Pena, lining a single into center field. Braves centerfielder Marquis Grissom could not throw out pinch runner Alvaro Espinosa, who scored from second, giving Cleveland the win. Wulf thinks Atlanta may have an advantage in game four as the Braves face right hander Ken Hill. "Many...
...reward and blamed the county for helping conjure the lawless climate that led to the bombing. Stung, the county met again and unanimously withdrew the reward. "We didn't really expect gratitude," says Cameron McRae, chairman of the commission. "But we surely didn't expect to get it thrown in our faces...
...homes were destroyed, swamped by the 15-ft. tidal surge or crushed by the battering of 30-ft. waves. Some structures were reduced to piles of indistinguishable rubble; others simply disappeared, leaving only stubby supports to show where a house once stood. Several homes were lifted up and thrown more than 50 yds.; one could be seen floating 200 yds. offshore...
Jury expert Abramson also believes that asking jurors to sit silently throughout a trial and not talk about a case is onerous and unreasonable. At the very least, he contends, jurors facing a welter of technicalities thrown at them without a clearly understood context should be allowed to ask questions screened by the judge. But Abramson would go further: "I favor allowing jurors to start talking [among themselves] about the one thing that's overwhelming their lives...