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...amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, after the baseball great who succumbed to it. There is no cure for ALS; 80% of its victims die within five years of diagnosis. Yet once the diagnosis was confirmed in 1998, Dillon's first response was to write to the staff and the students' families, explaining her illness and her determination to continue working. Their support has been unequivocal. Last year Williams Elementary named her Teacher of the Year, and Graystone dedicated its library...
...want to cry in front of the children, so she tries not to think about the end of life. She finds work the best distraction. After all, there's a reading celebration to run, summer-activity packets to prepare, a children's book on disabilities she wants to write. "I love what I do," she says. "With less time before me, I have to live even faster now. I'm like the little engine that could." The little girl who wanted to be a teacher got her wish, and her greatest lesson is her last...
...Saint Augustine is a permanent concern of mine," says Wills. "He has been my hero and favorite writer and thinker since college. I had been looking for the opportunity to write a short life." Gordon recalls Atlas' phone call asking her if she'd be interested in contributing a Penguin Lives volume: "It was as if a lightning bolt hit me. I said, 'Yes, I'd like to do Joan of Arc.' I've been really fascinated by her since I was a little girl." Although she was teaching at Barnard College and working on a novel, she does...
DIED. DAME BARBARA CARTLAND, 98, best-selling romance novelist whose 723 books sold more than 1 billion copies worldwide; in Hertfordshire, England. Cartland published her first novel in 1925, was dubbed the queen of romance fiction and became beloved for creating virginal heroines in rococo plotlines. Her ability to write a novel a week, dictating to secretaries while reclining on a sofa, earned her a glamorous, bejeweled lifestyle, a host of pink gowns and a bit part in a real-life rococo drama: step-grandmother to Princess Diana...
Journalists write the first rough draft of history. Historians write the final draft, presumably. What is the difference between the two versions...