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AGE IS SOMETIMES VIEWED as a practical way of classifying human beings and assigning them to various groups: babies, children, adolescents, adults, and seniors. Although these divisions may show the advantages and possibilities of each age group, they also emphasize differences, separations, and limitations.

The ADVERTISEMENT on a local real estate marquee caught my eye: "Lake-front home, gentle to the water. " I wasn't in the market for a new home, but that sweet phrase, "gentle to the water," which referred to a gentle slope from house to lake, rather than a sudden drop-off, spoke to me.

My SON WAS a happy ten-year-old boy. But at one point I began to notice that his mood was changing.

I found out about Christian Science when I was in university. I earned an undergraduate degree in music and education, and then studied French language and culture in Quebec City.

I DON'T KNOW that anything can prepare anybody for the shock that comes with the sudden passing of a loved one. When we were notified that our youngest son had been killed in a hit-and-run accident, the shock was stunning.

After graduate school I hit a wall. It was like I was trapped in a dense fog.

Reading Rooms play a central role in meeting the demand for Science and Health. "People who come to the Reading Room are on a search," says Christina Welton, a Reading Room librarian in Los Angeles, California.

October 24, 1880, to Ellen L. Clark: "I am delighted to hear you say the book feeds you.

Looking back Concord, New Hampshire, Summer 1890. She had come a long way from those hungry years in Lynn, Massachusetts, in the 1860s and 1870s.

"If you need a title to have people follow, you're not really a leader," my boss said. I was a young businesswoman struggling to carve a place in an all-male environment.