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...dropping acid with actress Holland Taylor. But she does it, generally, with obsequious reverence and block-that-metaphor prose (Joan Crawford was "her own nebula--a woman who hauled herself up by her bootstraps and created her glittering star self from scratch"). That soft touch has made her the Barbara Walters of gossip, with access to match. "[W]ouldn't you rather I dealt with it Liz Smith-style?" she asks subjects. After a few hundred pages, it becomes a little much--and that's before Smith shares her thoughts on religion. Still, if you like worshipful, '40s-style celebrity...
...Iliad. The mobile guide www.h2g2.com/onthemove) which gives people a way to tap in while traveling, can be accessed through 22 mobile operators on four continents, including AT&T Wireless and Sprint's PCS networks in the U.S. Says Adams, who divides his time between a home in Santa Barbara, Calif., and h2g2's London headquarters: "Going wireless is a huge step toward where we want to go with this." And where is that? A quantum leap forward in the customization of personal services offered over the wireless...
...Barbara Strong, 59, suffered because of such ignorance. Miami doctors refused the former nurse's pleas for medication when horrific cancer pain struck. After Strong rebelled and found a pain specialist, her regular doctor "went wacko...He said I would become addicted." So Strong stayed with the oncologist; eventually her pain got so awful she could barely move. "I wanted to be dead," she says. As a Christian, Strong couldn't go through with actually killing herself, but she did consider an alternative: "Jack Kevorkian, where...
...Barbara Lane, 53, and suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Haven House, a 20-bed residential hospice in North Atlanta, is living up to its name. ALS invariably kills, but the timing is hard to predict, which runs afoul of the hospice requirement that a patient certifiably have no more than six months to live. Coverage can be extended only if deterioration is continuous or if death is predictable within subsequent six-month periods. Doctors determined that they could not certify Lane, after she had spent a year in her original hospice, a third time, but Haven House executive director Metta...
LIFE IS GOOD Barbara Coloroso, the author of Parenting Through Crisis: Helping Kids in Times of Loss, Grief, and Change (HarperCollins), is a great believer in openness with children in the face of death. "We can try to hide the loss from them, try to shield them from the anguish, convince ourselves they are too young to understand--they will still grieve, but without the comfort, support, knowledge and tools they need...