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...that, my mother, her mother, every mother I'd ever met had drummed into me that childbirth was agony. Pain-free labor? Yeah, right. But my husband Alex--a doctor who sniggered every time my prenatal-yoga video urged me to open up like a lotus blossom--was hypnobirthing's unlikely champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Birth Bliss | 3/1/2004 | See Source »

...majority of French people support legalizing euthanasia in some cases, according to polls. Almost everyone wants to wipe away the legal ambiguity that haunts doctors now. But no one is quite sure how. The day he died, Humbert predicted in his book, would be like the day a flower blossom finally opens its petals to the sky. On the third anniversary of his accident, his mother, Marie Humbert, sat beside his hospital bed as she always had. Then she injected him with a cocktail of barbiturates. "I did it," she told a doctor, according to the French newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Debate Won't Die | 11/16/2003 | See Source »

...Gienapp was so bright but yet so modest about his knowledge,” said McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History Steven Ozment. “At times he would blossom and become the most witty person you could ever talk...

Author: By Joseph M. Tartakoff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Family, Colleagues Remember Historian | 10/31/2003 | See Source »

...slim volumes ($55 for a set of eight, covering 35 European destinations) are tailored to slip discreetly into one of those famously monogrammed handbags. Apart from listing the finest hotel, dining, shopping and touring options, the books provide arcane survival tips for fastidious travelers, such as the fact that Blossom & Browne's Sycamore Laundry in London uses "softened water to protect your Pradas." But not all the attractions have five-star ratings. Flea markets happily coexist with big-name boutiques in the shop listings, and the reviews of the usual destinations?Paris, Rome, Madrid?are joined by shorter takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lowdown on the High Life | 10/13/2003 | See Source »

...slim volumes ($55 for a set of eight, covering 35 European destinations) are tailored to slip discreetly into one of those famously monogrammed handbags. Apart from listing the finest hotel, dining, shopping and touring options, the books provide arcane survival tips for fastidious travelers, such as the fact that Blossom & Browne's Sycamore Laundry in London uses "softened water to protect your Pradas." But not all the attractions have five-star ratings. Flea markets happily coexist with big-name boutiques in the shop listings, and the reviews of the usual destinations - Paris, Rome, Madrid - are joined by shorter takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lowdown on the High Life | 10/12/2003 | See Source »

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