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...February 1990. The 26-year-old had suffered cardiac arrest; her brain was severely damaged by lack of oxygen. Two years later, Michael won a malpractice suit against Terri's doctor. The jury awarded $700,000 for Terri's care and $300,000 to Michael for loss of companionship. In 1998 Michael sought permission to remove his wife's feeding tube, arguing that she had told him years earlier that she would not want to live in a severely compromised state. Terri did not leave a living will...
Psychotherapist Kathleen Brehony is not the sort of touchy-feely, self-help author who will teach you how to become your own best friend. But if you can use more companionship in your life, Brehony is a master. Her wise new book, Living a Connected Life, offers helpful tips for people in a society in which sending an e-mail to someone down the hall is the norm. Too busy for relationships? Nonsense, says Brehony. You have as many hours in a day as everyone else. Perfect your small-talk skills, she advises. "It is the conduit through which strangers...
...benefits of platonic friendship are multifold, if a bit different for each sex. Male friendships tend to be founded on companionship; men typically define their best friend as someone with whom they can do things. Women usually count a close friend as someone with whom they can talk and share feelings. "Men often find it difficult to become emotionally close to other men," says Peter Nardi, a sociologist at Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif. "They're more comfortable revealing their emotions to a woman." Each sex looks to the other for aspects of the other's form of friendship. While...
...flagship chocolate bars and Reese's peanut butter cups. For its sweetener, Hershey settled on a sugar alcohol called lactitol, which happens to be the brand name of a British laxative. "I had one--ONE--of the mini Reese's, and was not fit for human or feline companionship for the next six hours," a user confided on eGullet.com a website for food fans...
...sharing a home. Working with four social-service agencies, the program aims in its first year to match 30 seniors with 30 others who are willing to share their homes, says spokeswoman Tanya Mitchell. "Particularly for the older segment of this population, this will be a way to have companionship and save on household costs at the same time," says Carla Windhorst, director of community initiatives for Mather LifeWays, a not-for-profit organization that is assisting with the program...