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...Giving birth to my beautiful baby boys at home was the best gift I could have ever given them. They were born in comfort, with love and patience, helped into the world with the warmth of our midwives' hands. There was no rush. It was my birth, my way. I was as in control of my decisions as I was when I conceived these babies. I hope that one day women and doctors will wake up and smell the coffee. Birth is a natural process between mother and baby. Support local home-birth midwives because peace begins with birth...
...call home. When China's Cheng Fei came off the floor in tears after a fall in the event final, Chow just did what came naturally. He gave her a hug. "Everybody should perform their best because they are competitors," he said. "I just tried to give her some comfort, because she really felt bad about herself." And that, really, is what the Olympic experience is about...
...cope, Emmons can take comfort in history. Last time around, a big plus emerged from the pileup: he lost the gold but won the girl. After collapsing in Athens, Emmons retreated to a bar with his buddies. He needed to drown his sorrows. A Czech shooter, Katerina Kurkova, came up to Emmons to offer condolences. "The way he handled that loss seemed very cool to me," Katerina, 24, says. "And I'm not blind. He's pretty cute." They started spending more time together on the shooting circuit and got married last summer...
...phenomenon has an ugly side, of course - jingoistic youth who can't understand why some Chinese or Koreans might continue to be miffed about comfort women or experiments with bubonic plague, particularly since Japanese textbooks still have a propensity to gloss over such wartime atrocities. But in an ex-imperialist country whose identity was so shattered that it ended up adopting peace as a national virtue - during the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics flocks of dove-shaped balloons were released into the air, underlining the not-so-subtle point that Japan wasn't about to declare war anytime soon - the return...
...loud through the entire piece. I intend to use the phrase "practically a sequoia" often to describe my own 61-year-old personage. Whether I agree or disagree with his opinion of the film, I will remain grateful for an evening's amusement, at no cost and in the comfort of my sitting room. Patricia W. Gould, NAPERVILLE...