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...this for a job offer: Live rent-free for the summer on 64-acre Seguin Island off the coast of Maine. And for a small stipend, give tours of the historic lighthouse, work at the small store and museum attached to the lighthouse, and keep a daily log of the sunset, sunrise and tides. For retirees Michael Brzoza, 51, and his wife Marilyn Lucey, 60, it was irresistible. "We loved the idea of living on a beautiful island 2½ miles out to sea," says Lucey, a former toy designer. "We could see whales and migrating birds. We could pick wild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Workplace: Paradise | 8/16/2005 | See Source »

...every living situation a trip to paradise. Lucey and Brzoza loved their summer on Seguin Island but note that they couldn't drink the water (they had to bring it in once a week), couldn't do laundry with the water (they laundered with captured rainwater) and didn't have a working toilet in their quarters (they had to walk 400 feet down an embankment to a compost toilet). Still, the beauty and seclusion of the island outweighed the inconveniences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Workplace: Paradise | 8/16/2005 | See Source »

Even when our own doctor tells us to get our colon checked, we don't always listen. A year and a half ago, Florence Seguin, 73, of Williamsburg, Va., shrugged off her physician's recommendation that she undergo a colonoscopy, a procedure in which a doctor inserts a flexible lighted tube into the colon to look for abnormal growths. A former nun and the adoptive mother of a 13-year-old boy, Seguin knew that one of her brothers had died of colon cancer, but it wasn't until she saw an article about Couric and Monahan that she stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Katie's Crusade | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...expects stories like Seguin's to make up for the loss Couric has experienced, but they do bring her a measure of satisfaction. "It's difficult every day without Jay," Couric says. "But it's not difficult to do this, because I feel that if I can save even one family the heartbreak that mine went through, it's worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Katie's Crusade | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

Second Period--4, S, Baker (T. Lappin, P. Lappin) 4:10; 5, V, Walsh (Venne Lebruex) 18:36. Penalties--V, Venne (hooking) 3:00; V, Seguin (holding) 8:09; S, Lammens (holding) 8:09; S, Pritchaard (hooking...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Saints Prey Upon Cats, 4-2 | 3/12/1988 | See Source »

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