Getting the Girl
There is nothing sleek or high-tech about this third-floor conference room in Fairfax, Va., except, perhaps, the bright red laser pREAD MORE
A Brutal Cure
Operating room No. 5 at University Hospital in Denver is chilled almost to the point of refrigeration, but already the team of surgREAD MORE
How Can We Save the Next Victim?
ON A FRIDAY AFTERNOON LAST SUMMER, tiny Jose Eric Martinez was brought to the outpatient clinic of Hermann Hospital in Houston for READ MORE
Charity Begins at … the Marketing Meeting, the Gala Event, The Product Tie-In
THE 2,100 GUESTS AT THE SUSAN G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation’s charity gala in Dallas in October expected a luncheon. What they READ MORE
Pregnant with Complications
Sophia sits in a booth in a dimly lighted Chinese restaurant, reluctantly talking about the details of her life. She is beyond tireREAD MORE
Death on the CNN Curve
IT WAS FAME that killed Robert O’Donnell, killed him as surely as that shotgun blast he fired into his brain on a dark, dusty, WestREAD MORE
Kill for Life?
THE NEW WOMAN MEDICAL CENTER OF JACKSON, Miss., has not yet opened on this autumn morning, when a pair of dark blue vehicles arriveREAD MORE
There’s No Simple Suicide
By the time the Rev. Ralph Mero arrived at Louise J.’s tiny Seattle apartment, she had already emptied the contents of the sleepingREAD MORE
The High Cost of Living
Dr. David MacDougall was taking a brief, well-earned nap on a couch in the neurosurgery department at Hermann Hospital in Houston wREAD MORE
‘Lace Over Steel’: The Women Mayors of Texas
BETTY TURNER, THE FIRST WOMAN to serve as Mayor of Corpus Christi, Tex., is munching Gulf shrimp and having a minor disagreement wiREAD MORE
The Prisoner of Seventh Avenue
HALSTON, THE LEGENDARY fashion designer, sits in the two-story living room of his multimillion-dollar town house, his face slicked READ MORE
The Mail Order Bride Business
TESSIE FLORENCE HAS BECOME an international matchmaker. Each month, working from her airy four-bedroom house in Santa Maria, Calif.READ MORE