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...what age must a child be shaken awake from her dream life into reality? Nine, says Ratnam's haunting new film A Peck on the Cheek. Amudha (the sweetly precocious P.S. Keerthana) is celebrating her birthday, secure in the love of her Madras parents, a writer and a TV news reader. They have chosen this day to give the girl startling news: she is adopted, and the identity of her birth mother has been lost in the carnage of the Sri Lankan...
...BIRTHDAY CELEBRATED. KAMATO HONGO, at 115 the world's oldest person; in Kyushu, Japan. Kyushu is also home to the world's oldest man, 113-year-old Yukichi Chuganji. While Japan's long life expectancy is a point of national pride, the country's dominance of global old-age records has come to reflect the looming economic and social problems associated with its aging population...
...Superman Targets Bush In a wide-ranging interview with Britain's Guardian newspaper, paralyzed actor Christopher Reeve recounts his progress towards his goal of walking by his 50th birthday, and lists President Bush's policy on stem cell research among his major impediments. Reeve is enraged at what he characterizes as the President's capitulation to the Church on an issue of critical importance to people facing dire medical conditions...
...poor communication with their relatives in New York because of the conditions of illegal immigration, making it harder to recognize when someone was truly gone. Rosario Arrazola explained to The New York Times that she only surmised her husband’s death when their son’s birthday came and he didn’t call. He was in the United States illegally; to avoid being traced he did not communicate about where he was living or working...
...midnight, Sept. 11, 2001, it hit me when I got back to Boston that...for the rest of my life, my birthday is going to be like D-Day, but worse, and I realized I’m not going to be going out to the clubs to celebrate,” he said. “But then I realized that’s probably the best way to deal with it—we’re alive and in pretty good shape, and let’s celebrate it while we’re here...