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BEN was my friend. When I was a little girl I had a palm-sized picture book about friendship that contained the line: 'A friend is someone who likes you.' Ben [...]

New limited liability laws have been proposed in the UK with the aim of protecting professionals from liability. The increase in the number and size of legal actions targeted at professional firms threaten not only the firm assets but also the savings of individual partners. In response to complaints by professionals, the Dept of Trade and Industry has been working to introduce a new form of corporate business organization, specifically a limited liability partnership (LLP). In the past, this form of association did not apply to professionals. However, the department indicated in a consultation document released in Sep 1998 that it is attempting to find ways to make LLP coverage more universal. Nevertheless, the Limited Liability Partnerships Bill has certain shortcomings that may prevent it from totally protecting young professionals.

In the lavender early evening traffic lights, green as iridescent fish gleam at the intersection of night and neon light while citizens in dark clothing hurry into dusk lean forward [...]

Each evening I go to collect night's sour jewels emerald and cherry red acid drops of light in the night in the dark in the winter velvet darkness moving inside [...]

For the first time in many generations, mothers (and fathers) have the means to give their daughters everything they ask for, with no exceptions, no accountability and no boundaries ('Outraged [...]

TOWARDS STARLIGHT Into dark mauve sky the harbour bridge diamante choker laid against her throat each arm outflung laden with jewelled skyscrapers the night, barely risen as if there'd never [...]

ENDLESS NIGHT A bird of doom alighted on my shoulder as I lay breathing in my life and rides me now and ever more-- its caw so gloomy and its [...]

THINNING I never went. I only hid. I made myself into a shadow. You wore me like a dress. I was the cobwebs in your house. I saw the way [...]

ALL RIGHT It was all right except for the last nine years I made pain all mine again and it was all right so long as you expected little and [...]

HOUSE The past rips up into my house like a shark and the sea comes in and it's deep and it's dark and it is icy cold the air itself [...]

MR HYDES The park is full of broken-hearted men the tree-veins drip brightness and the benched and sombre-suited men relive their wedding days beneath the glowing arches. Did you know [...]

COATS How it lumbered you-- the ghost of your booze-drowned father slung across your back like a sack trailing his sensitive tobacco-stained hands all the way to the sands of [...]

We cross over into the forest of shades warning lights flickering into the valley of the dead the lines are parallel electric caterpillars of light overhead lit moths and butterflies [...]

Granuloma annulare is a skin condition characterized by the development of reddish nodules, or small aggregations of cells, arranged in a circular pattern. There are few reports of granuloma annulare associated with malignancy. A case is described of a 52-year-old woman who developed granuloma annulare before discovery of an abnormal breast mass. The skin lesion disappeared one month after mastectomy to treat breast cancer. One year later, the patient noted recurrence of the skin lesion, followed by recurrence of the breast cancer one month later. The granuloma annulare resolved within one month after chemotherapy to treat the cancer. Seven months later, the skin lesions reappeared; it was found that the cancer had metastasized to the brain. The patient underwent radiation therapy, which resulted in elimination of the brain tumor and the granuloma annulare. Studies have shown that granuloma annulare recurs at a rate of 41 percent, and frequently in the same location as the original lesion. The relation between the development of granuloma annulare and malignancy is not clear, but may be related to changes in the body's natural defense system. (Consumer Summary produced by Reliance Medical Information, Inc.)