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"Endure. " "Submit.

My husband and I are grandparents who don't buy the rocking-chair concept of aging. There is a spirit in our generation that just refuses to "grow old" gracefully—a spirit that resists the idea of aging.

Not long ago, our bank sent my husband a check that he didn't write for an automobile he didn't purchase. An alert bank employee had noticed that the signature didn't quite match my husband's, although it approximated it.

" Bobby McFerrin defies description," I explained to the woman sitting next to me. "He's definitely one of a kind.

Freedom is possible, imperative, sustainable In response to the Journal's talk with Peter Ackerman about nations and their struggles for freedom, we asked three Christian Science practitioners and teachers to offer their thoughts and experiences as they look out on the world. Since each comes from a different part of the globe, each one took a different approach to the subject.

Over the last six months, momentum continues to build from the 2002 Annual Meeting & Conference of The Church of Christ, Scientist. The meeting explored three overarching messages: the universality of Christian Science: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures as a resource for everyone: and Mary Baker Eddy's design for a Church to respond to today's demand for spiritual answers.

When I Was Eight, I lived in Angola, where the war for independence was about to begin. I studied in a religious school, and had a great spiritual hunger.

In April of 1983, three people who had learned about Christian Science in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Zaire, met at a family gathering in Angola. They soon began to hold sunday services and Wednesday testimony meetings in a private home.

The 1950s were a decade in which much of the world was recovering from years of war. Even so, some steps of solid, political, and technical progress were made.

Last month's segment of this series on the history of The Herald of Christian Science, Which will be celebrating its 100th anniversary in April of this year, described events leading up to the production of the Spanish edition of the Herald. Just as the Spanish language is spoken in very diverse countries, Portuguese has become part of cultures where explorers from Portugal traveled—in Africa, South America, and other places as well.