RECONCILIATION facilitator Jessie Sutherland cites two dramatic episodes that helped transform her life. Both took place outside Canada--her home--on different continents. Although born and raised in English speaking Vancouver, Sutherland's education was deliberately fashioned to prepare her to

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Nine years ago, I was at a restaurant with my family when I got dizzy. Then I felt pain in my chest and neck, and my arms were like lead. A nurse who was also there started asking me about my symptoms, then said Call 911! Before I knew it, I was in an ambulance on my way to

Having health insurance gives people a chance to go to the doctor "before" life-threatening experiences occur. Patients can go to the health-care provider to get that ingrown toenail fixed before it is infected, and while there, they...

...financial and emotional trauma of devastating illnesses, a death in the family, and other life-changing or life-threatening experiences. In Boston, Citizens Bank is launching a "Peace of Mind Fund" for its employees that will offer no-interest...

...young girls and women. It is estimated that every tenth of them travel on their own. A lot of them already had life threatening experiences in their home countries and during their risky flights. Often they are exposed to bad and insecure living...

...and we are losing entire generations of people," said Williams, 47. "It has to stop." These are some of the life-threatening experiences he faced in 2002 and 2003 while living in the Brookfield Village and teaching at the School of Urban Missions...

...to be alive. This changed my life by making me realize not to take life for granted. I used to, but those life-threatening experiences were wake- up calls for me and, most likely, my entire family. I now realize you should live every day to...

...weights together. You go on vacations with your (fire)house. They're bonding experiences. And when you go into life-threatening experiences, you're going in with your family." New York City's fires are battled mostly by men - men with family trees...

...women who will come before the court on similar charges. Prison is no place for women who have been through life-threatening experiences and have killed because of that.'' Hilary Tipping, director of Domestic Violence Care, said: It is a brilliant...

...troops often struggle with leaving families behind, concern for their own and their colleagues' safety and the life-threatening experiences that can occur during a deployment, said Senior Airman Abbey Brown, 66th Medical Operations Squadron, Mental...