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...talk explains what life was like for the person while he was drinking and how it has changed for the better. Later the moderator opens the floor. He or she might ask: "Did anybody want to drink today?" Members respond, frequently dealing with personal issues. The groups have no regimen per se, only the so- called twelve steps that include such basic A.A. tenets as admitting one's powerlessness over alcohol and acknowledging the existence of a higher power than oneself...
...emerged from the illness this month determined to change her tune and be fitter than a bass fiddle. Her goal: "To lose a zillion pounds and become the thinnest lady conductor--at least in Boston." She has already dropped 70 lbs. (from a reported 250) on a prescribed regimen that includes a 600-calorie-a-day diet and plenty of walking, treadmill exercise and tennis. Has it been tough? Not after doctors told her the alternative was "to live two more years and be sick...
...Carmelite rule calls for a strict regimen based on silence and prayer. However, an experimental charter approved by the Vatican in 1977 allowed more leeway for the 13,000 nuns, who live in 826 convents across 72 nations, with the largest group in Spain. Though four-fifths of these nuns favor the moderate reforms, a strict traditionalist faction has been lobbying against them...
...traditionalists, centered in Spain, want a strict charter based on the order's constitution of 1581. The legalistic 1581 document, written by Carmelite priests a year before Teresa died, specified everything from a strict regimen of fasting to the material from which sandals were to be made. Casaroli's letter declared that the 1581 constitution is the "genuine expression" of Teresa's desires. The great majority of the nuns, however, maintain that the important matter is not such details but the saint's spiritual vision, and that this is best perpetuated by following the simpler rule she wrote...
DIED. Nathan Pritikin, 69, health and fitness guru whose regimen of low- cholesterol diet and exercise attracted thousands of grateful disciples who claimed both weight loss and amelioration of heart disease, hypertension and diabetes symptoms; by his own hand while suffering from advanced leukemia; in Albany. Pritikin became a self-taught nutritionist after he was diagnosed as having heart disease at age 40. He promoted his diet plan, consisting mostly of fruits, vegetables and whole-grain breads, in $3,675 two-week programs at his longevity centers and through several books...