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Some coroners say suspects are dying not from police brutality but an obscure medical disorder.
By Christian Parenti
September 29, 1999
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Why does college life teach students to lose the family to find the self?
By Simon Rodberg
September 20, 1999
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Sometimes we just have to stand aside and let our students become the teachers.
By David Alford
September 17, 1999
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As the relief effort in Turkey mounts, international humanitarian organizations are seeking contributions for earthquake victims.
By Fiona Morgan
August 23, 1999
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Lost in the fiery back alleys of Varanasi, a wanderer stumbles into an unforgettable encounter.
By Jeffrey Tayler
August 21, 1999
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"They laughed," she says. "But later, the same people were sitting in here
crying. You don't know how you're going to feel until it happens to you."
By Kathy Dobie
July 9, 1999
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The strange story of Lenin's embalmers and a collection of cheeky epitaphs suggest that the Reaper may not be so grim after all.
By Jonathon Keats
July 2, 1999
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The death of a beloved friend makes plain the beauty of this world.
By Anne Lamott
June 24, 1999
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In 44 years of training morticians, Hugh McMonigle has seen twitching fingers, rebuilt heads and has been properly freaked out at least once.
By Jenn Shreve
May 23, 1999
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The troubled child co-star of "Diff'rent Strokes" overdoses.
By Associated Press
May 10, 1999
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The loss of a child leaves a hole in your heart that never heals.
By Camille Peri
May 5, 1999
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Oliver, you "baddie," we miss you already.
May 3, 1999
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Waiting to find out if you've lost your child is the worst torture.
By Carol Ormandy
April 27, 1999
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Unfortunately, you can't have your true authentic healed whole self
and buns of steel. Anne Lamott on why redemption doesn't work that
way.
By Anne Lamott
April 1, 1999
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Anne Lamott considers how you explain death to a kid who wants to be cryogenically frozen.
By Anne Lamott
March 18, 1999
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A simple succession of events in an African village
leads to a tragedy -- and a traveler's haunting sense of hopelessness.
By Tanya Shaffer
February 23, 1999
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Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchú, accused of misrepresenting her life, tries to simultaneously argue that she didn't lie and that if she did, it doesn't matter.
By James Poniewozik
February 12, 1999
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When tragedy strikes his host family in Guatemala, Steve Kettmann confronts the painful dilemma of travelers who briefly intersect locals' lives.
By Steve Kettmann
January 4, 1999
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A brief obituary of the British poet Ted Hughes, who died Wednesday Oct. 28, and links to Salon's glowing review of his last book of poems, 'Birthday Letters.'
By Salon Magazine
October 30, 1998
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Searching for the site of James Dean's fatal car crash leads to
Nowhere.
By Lesley Hazleton
September 25, 1998
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Horrormeister Stephen King has turned mankind's oldest fear into an excruciatingly addictive body of work. For those new to the master's nightmare world, Andrew O'Hehir recommends five books.
By Andrew O'Hehir
September 24, 1998
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The horror master talks about the latent violence of males, childhood terror and an "odious little man" named Kenneth Starr.
By Andrew O'Hehir
September 24, 1998
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Death and the hard drive: Data can be a precious link to a lost loved one -- if you save it. By Moira Muldoon
By Moira Muldoon
September 9, 1998
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Carlos Castaneda, whoever he was, is dead -- whatever that is.
By Ian Shoales
June 24, 1998
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When a breast-fed infant dies from malnutrition, is the mother to blame?
By Dawn MacKeen
June 16, 1998
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