Email Author Gayle Worland

1999 Stories by Gayle Worland

• Malpractice Makes Perfect

  published October 14, 1999

  Dr. Karl Shipman's stumble off a ladder in September 1997 set off a perilous chain of events that led to -- but did not end with -- his sudden... More >>

• Side Effects

  published August 19, 1999

  Whenever someone handed Pharmacist Bob a prescription for thirty pills, he filled the order for thirty pills. "Not 29. Not 31," he says.... More >>

• Follow That Story

  published August 12, 1999

  Paying Dividends Making money can be a dirty business. But when Deb Sanchez attended a workshop at her Wild Oats grocery store promoting... More >>

• Don't Turn That Dial

  published July 29, 1999

  In the wee hours of the morning, an electronic signal beams out of the heavens and splashes into satellite dishes mounted on 12,000 schools across... More >>

• Bella Dinner

  published July 29, 1999

  It is one of the most nourishing, intoxicating and satisfying ways to spend an evening: the dinner party, where food is conversation and... More >>

• Missed Diagnosis

  published July 22, 1999

  This two-story house in a cozy subdivision just northeast of Boulder, with its bountiful flower garden, shutters and gables, and a kid-sized bike... More >>

• Guerra de los Peridicos

  published July 22, 1999

  Denver's newspaper wars are going bilingual. Even the New York Times took note of the vicious fight-to-the-death between the Rocky Mountain... More >>

• He Walks With the Animals

  published June 17, 1999

  Jasper Carlton tends to follow every one of his rapid-fire questions with an equally quick answer. "How many acres of grassland ecosystem... More >>

• She Sings for Their Supper

  published June 17, 1999

  She is the most unexpected of pleasures--slender, dark-haired, with a voice like Mexican honey...and all of nine years old. When Nayeli... More >>

• Art for Space

  published June 10, 1999

  If Grant Wood had moved his artist's eye a few acres to the left of the couple he depicted in "American Gothic"--the classic 1930 image of a gaunt... More >>

• The Wild Life

  published May 20, 1999

  Indiana Jones sits at a desk in his Evergreen home, typing his memoirs. In this particularly outrageous and harrowing chapter, he is chasing... More >>

• Lesson Unplanned

  published May 13, 1999

  In the first day of each semester, West High School teacher Alan Chimento hands his social studies students a twelve-page guide called "Activism... More >>

• Off the Deep End

  published May 6, 1999

  Dessert at the opening gala of Colorado's Ocean Journey is sure to be tasty, and a clever trick for the eye: a milk chocolate seashell filled with... More >>

• A Bug-Eat-Bug World

  published May 6, 1999

  Judy and Bill Fleming had a dream. And it was full of slippery, slimy, buggy-eyed fish. Michael Weissmann also had a dream. And it was full... More >>

• Critical Condition

  published May 6, 1999

  After three years on the waiting list, Walter Andre finally got a kidney transplant at Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center on January... More >>

• Pension Tension

  published April 8, 1999

  Just about the time that life is supposed to get easier, Jacqueline Hope's got harder. After her husband died in December, and his pension... More >>

• Mr. Clean

  published April 1, 1999

  Superfund was created to clean up toxic messes. Robert J. Martin's job is to clean up Superfund's messes. For now, though, he's just a fly... More >>

• Doctor's Orders

  published March 25, 1999

  On a golden September afternoon, Karl Shipman climbed two rungs up a ladder to trim a tree near the 150-year-old Vermont farmhouse he owned with... More >>

• Endangered Habitat

  published February 25, 1999

  After building more than 120 houses for low-income area families, Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver is suddenly facing a tough lot: No... More >>

• Toxic Wait

  published February 11, 1999

  For decades, the Rocky Mountain Arsenal served as a playground for the production of lethal chemicals. Nearby city officials want to make part of... More >>

• Swimming Upstream

  published February 4, 1999

  Last summer, a miracle appeared in the dead waters of the Alamosa River. A micro-invertebrate. A caddis fly larvae. "It's a start," says Victor... More >>

• The Incredible Shrinking Career

  published February 4, 1999

  Brian Rimar, a scientist with the Environmental Protection Agency, thought his assignment seemed simple enough: Monitor a herd of sheep through... More >>

• Under the Knife

  published January 21, 1999

  Malpractice cases, Moss explained to his client, settle late or never and can cost a fortune. You'll be personally, perhaps viciously, attacked.... More >>