Some of the classic suggestions to handle this dilemma include divorce, with the nonill spouse taking as much of the assets as possible, trusts, private long-term-care insurance, and asset transfers to friends or family.

Why are you so kiasi? You won't die from getting a small cut on the finger.

The double, by pinch-hitter Ruben Sierra, curved sharply toward foul ground in deep left field but then changed its mind and hit the line instead—a big hit, and a smile at last from the great and enigmatically difficult game.

In order to console myself—to indemnify myself in some measure—I take to picking all possible faults in the people who glide by. I shrug my shoulders contemptuously, and look slightingly at them according as they pass.