Lives That Didn't Go According to Plan
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Neither TNT's "The Wool Cap" nor CBS's "Back When We Were Grown-Ups" is perfect, but at a time of wretched sentimental excess, both show admirable restraint.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Three years ago, a towering wave swept aside the flimsy home of A. Muttama in Nagapattinam, India, and stole away her three children. Together with her husband, Selvaraj, a fisherman, she turned her back on the sea. After two years in shelter, they moved to Madras, where he found work as a rickshaw driver.
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Sir, I hope that all city councillors saw the Country Calendar programme, Saturday January 27. The programme graphically showed the importance of wetlands. Such areas were prolific around our estuaries in 1961. The destruction of our wetlands around Tahunanui, Annesbrook and Stoke horrifies me.
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These lives, abruptly transformed by illness, had one element in common: they pinned their hopes on experimental or unproven treatments.
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By La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 2--Imagine living the same day again and again and again.   Fortunately this scenario doesn't happen in real life.
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In a wise new novel, life happens, haphazardly
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It's not too late to get your plan back on track.
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I heard a report on NPR a couple of weeks ago, and thought it was very interesting.  A study of a group hotel maids found that even though they lead active lives, get lots of exercise, their health isn't good. High blood pressure, overweight, body-mass index, the usual signs of a sedentary life.  They interviewed them, asking if they were active -- no. Did they get exercise? No. (The correct answer was yes to both.) So they formed two groups, with one group they did nothing, with the other they had a series of classes where they showed them how doing maid work compared to other forms of exercise. The kept going until they understood that they were active and living a healhty lifestyle. A few months later they checked blood pressure, weight, BMI and amazingly the group they had educated had become healthy!
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Locales that are not always where you want to be but are always fascinating
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Here's the painful story of someone who did.
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By Millar, Heather  It seems like such a tall order: Proactively plan human activities so that they mesh with the natural environment. Try to approach nature as a system, even though we don't now, and may never, fully understand all of its' complexities.
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Some tragedies are reversible -- if we take action.
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Everyone has a moment in time that divides  his or her life into "before" and "after." For me that moment was 10 years ago, when I was 34. I had just left New York and moved to Washington -- trading my soul-deadening career and  size-0 studio apartment for a 9-to-5 job and a big one-bedroom overl...
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I didn't plan the party right: By the time it was underway, I had to get to work. That's when the breakfast I left on the stove caught fire and the guests fled. No one bothered to call the fire department. When I got home at 6 p.m., my kitchen was a pile of ash.
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"Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person."
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THEY do not normally conjure up an image of luxury living or appear on lists of millionaire enclaves.
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Rarely in history has a political movement been so deliberately set by its founder on a course towards chaos. Arafat not only left no successor, but also no order.