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...have solved it. On March 31, Britons Robert and Jennifer Stokes flew to Zurich to kill themselves with the help of professionals. The Stokes were in chronic discomfort - Jennifer, 53, suffered from diabetes and Robert, 59, was epileptic - and both reportedly were prone to depression. But neither was terminally ill, according to relatives. In Zurich, the Stokes were greeted by staff members from Dignitas, an assisted-suicide group in Switzerland, where the practice is legal - for patients suffering "intolerable health problems." (In Belgium, by contrast, patients must be terminally ill.) Assuming their experience was like that of their other clients...
...played by famed East German actress Katrin Sass. Other East German actors helped revise the script to eliminate expressions and slang not used in the East. The film, which cost j4 million to make, was initially beset by bad luck. Frequent storms halted filming, a number of actors fell ill, and it proved difficult to remake the East Berlin neighborhood to look like 1989 - all the parking meters had to be removed, for example. The key moment in the film, when the mother sees a Soviet helicopter carrying away a huge bust of Lenin, took weeks to shoot because...
...nurture their friendships. Jane Chittick, 52, gathers with six of her childhood friends once a year for an all-girl slumber-party weekend. The tradition, in its 15th year, started in 1988 at a high school reunion when Chittick invited her friends to stay at her mother's Morton, Ill., house during the event. After a night of talking and laughing, the group decided to meet at a different location every summer. During the rest of the year, the women, who live across the country and in Canada, keep up with one another via e-mail and the occasional phone...
...natural offspring of book clubs for adults, parent-child discussion groups--such as this one, which meets monthly in Wilmette, Ill.--have grown increasingly popular in recent years. Although the mother-daughter combination remains the most common configuration, mother-son, father-son and father-daughter groups also are coming together in libraries, bookstores and private homes across the country...
...problem with the Web tours, however, is that they tend to be carefully edited. Jim Conroy, chairman of the college counseling department at New Trier high school in Winnetka, Ill., says, for example, that colleges rarely include pictures of the campus in winter...