内容摘要：All but two states saw declines last year, with Nevada and South Dakota experiencing small increases. Some of the biggest drops were in Ohio, West Virginia and other states that have been hard-hit in the nation’s decades-long overdose epidemic.

All but two states saw declines last year, with Nevada and South Dakota experiencing small increases. Some of the biggest drops were in Ohio, West Virginia and other states that have been hard-hit in the nation’s decades-long overdose epidemic.

Another day, Dietrich swept in to a hair salon.“Marlene always had this distant, untouchable air — except when late for the hairdresser,” Bambi says, smiling. “She rushed in, kissed the hairdresser, settled beneath the dryer, stretched her long legs imperiously onto a stool, and lit a cigarette. Her gaunt pout as she smoked — I’ll never forget it,” she says, her impression exaggerated as she sucked in her cheeks. Perhaps Dietrich wasn’t her favorite star.

Then there was Piaf, who, one evening, teasingly joked about her protégé, the French singing legend, performing nearby. “She asked, ‘What time does Aznavour start?’” Bambi recalled. “Someone said, ‘Midnight.’ So she joked, ‘Then it’ll be finished by five past midnight.’”Behind the glamour lay constant danger. Living openly as a woman was illegal. “There was a police decree,” Bambi recalls. “It was a criminal offense for a man to dress as a woman. But if you wore pants and flat shoes, you weren’t considered dressed as a woman.”

The injustice was global. Homosexuality remained criminalized for decades: in Britain until 1967, in parts of the U.S. until 2003. Progress came slowly.Bambi and her black boa, a whisper from her glamorous past. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

Bambi and her black boa, a whisper from her glamorous past. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

In 1950s Paris, though, Bambi bought hormones casually over-the-counter, “like salt and pepper at the grocery.”Whatever happens next, James’ surgery offers scientists an unprecedented window into how the human eye tries to heal.

“We’re not claiming that we are going to restore sight,” said Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez, NYU’s plastic surgery chief, who led the transplant. “But there’s no doubt in my mind we are one step closer.”This fall 2010 family photo shows Aaron James and his wife, Meagan, before his June 2021 high-voltage electricity accident. (NYU Langone Health via AP)

This fall 2010 family photo shows Aaron James and his wife, Meagan, before his June 2021 high-voltage electricity accident. (NYU Langone Health via AP)Some specialists had feared the eye would quickly shrivel like a raisin. Instead, when Rodriguez propped open James’ left eyelid last month, the donated hazel-colored eye was as plump and full of fluid as his own blue eye. Doctors see good blood flow and no sign of rejection.