Later, America's first Nobel laureate, Sinclair Lewis, said that Dreiser's powerful first novel "came to housebound and airless America like a great free Western wind, and to our stuffy domesticity gave us the first fresh air since Mark Twain and Whitman".
We know that what works for a technologically savvy young person with type one diabetes isn't suitable for an elderly, housebound patient with type two diabetes.
The most probable pattern is V-shaped; high spending in the early years while they can still travel; a fall in spending as they become more housebound; and then a surge in spending in the final years to pay for nursing-home care.
Housebound women were also far more likely to report symptoms of depression than their working counterparts, problems which can only make the process of childrearing more difficult.
Mr Yeltsin has pulled many a similar trick before and got away with it.To issue grand public commands is also a way for him to pose as the man running the country—a pose he must strike as often as possible, since illness and fatigue have kept him in hospital or housebound for at least seven of the 18 months since his re-election in July 1996.
The more children they have, the more likely they are to be housebound.
Valerie Finnis he describes communicating shrub news, with her proud "28 flowers on the xanthoceras", to her housebound husband using a walkie-talkie "whose volume, eventually, she learned to control".
One man who claimed to be virtually housebound was snapped fishing for marlin in Costa Rica (pictured).Cyrus Vance, Manhattan's district attorney, speculates that the scheme, which dates back to 1988, may have involved as many as 1,000 people and as much as $400m in benefits.
Old and housebound Scots and English have posted stones to the cairn, often colourfully decorated with the union flag, or the Saltire, or with personal messages.
A wide-angle camera, mounted on a rolling platform and remotely controlled by directional arrows on a laptop computer, opened the collection to housebound visitors.
For the past ten years the 46-year-old north Londoner has been virtually housebound and cut of from the outside world.
