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...eliminate stress in your life, because that is impossible—you cannot avoid the problem set you have due on Friday, the frazzled call from your aunt, or the guy that keeps calling you 10 times a night. Instead, you need to figure out the best way to cope with the different stresses in your life right now and prevent them from crossing the boundary into the realm of “anxiety...

Author: By Nicole B. Urken, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: DEAR NIKKI: Anxiety and Amor | 10/3/2005 | See Source »

...Only my 77-year-old aunt and her 81-year-old husband are holding out. Despite repeated rounds of cajoling, hollering and begging, the pair refuses to leave their house in Montgomery County, just north of Houston, even though there's been a call for elderly people to evacuate. "I've talked to my neighbors and to security and everyone says it'll be windy and we'll get some rain, but that's all," insists Peggy Nordstrom. "We're going to be fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rita: One Family Tries to Leave | 9/22/2005 | See Source »

Farmer brought his laundry basket full of coffee and canned milk back to his Napoleon Avenue home, which had no form of communication except a land telephone. The line would determine his family’s survival when his aunt called, telling them that floodwaters were fast rising on the northern side of the city. Farmer drove out at 1 a.m. Wednesday morning...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: After Storm, An Uncertain Calm | 9/12/2005 | See Source »

...most remarkable biographies since, well, the 18th century, when James Boswell profiled Samuel Johnson. Boswell had it easy: Johnson was the leading literary figure of the age. But Seth's Two Lives focuses on people unknown to all but friends and family: Seth's great-uncle Shanti and great-aunt Henny, with whom the author lived in north London for several years as a student. Though these two hardly changed the course of history, the passion and eloquence Seth brings to their story makes Two Lives fascinating - and maybe even worth its reported $2.5 million advance. Born in a northern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Family Affair | 9/11/2005 | See Source »

...that begins, "Have you ever heard the sound of a mother screaming for her son?" Surviving son Andy, 21, supports his mother in principle but recently sent her a long e-mail imploring her "to come home because you need to support us at home," he says. Casey's aunt Cherie Quartarolo e-mailed a California radio station last week to rebuke Cindy, writing, "She appears to be promoting her own personal agenda at the expense of her son's good name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mother And the President | 8/15/2005 | See Source »

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