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That was the idea behind Stephanie Wilkinson's recent weekend at the Mirbeau Inn & Spa in the Adirondacks with her college friends Elisabeth and Jennifer. The three traveled separately from Lexington, Va., Rochester, N.Y., and Boston, leaving a total of six children under 7 behind at home. "In our crazy, busy lives, I feel as if we have no real time with our friends," Wilkinson says. "It seems the only way to maintain a friendship is to go away with them...
This past Saturday night, retired Roman Catholic Priest Joseph Pilger, 78, was beaten to death in his home in Lexington...
DIED. DONALD GRIFFIN, 88, animal behaviorist who was considered the father of animal-consciousness research; in Lexington, Mass. His 1976 book, The Question of Animal Awareness, revolutionized the study of animal behavior by arguing that animals have the capacity for thought and reason, a notion that was previously taboo...
...wounds you cannot see. Post-traumatic stress disorder is a legacy of any war, especially those--unlike the 100-hour first Gulf War--that demand months, if not years, of U.S. occupation. "We have become much better at keeping people with severe injuries alive," says Loren Thompson of the Lexington Institute, a military think tank in Arlington, Va. "But the range of treatments provided--including counseling, assisted living, disability benefits and so on--can be quite extensive...
...hedonism is seldom advisable—but a lack of self-consciousness is. When George Plimpton ’48 died last week, obituaries didn’t mention his GPA, or the brilliance of his pronouncements in section. They did include a description of his disrupting a Lexington ceremony honoring Paul Revere’s ride by galloping in costumed as a British officer and stealing a dignitary’s microphone...