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1. Jackie Debs won't apply for a job until she can drive a car by herself, something that her agoraphobia, fear of being in public places, prevents her from doing. Photo by Sandra Bancroft-Billings/The Spokesman-Review 2. Gary Coxe works with Jackie Debs to overcome her fears. Coxe and Debs are filmed by Montana free-lance photographer Steve Slocomb for "The Gordon Elliot Show."

A businesswoman's first clue she's leading an unbalanced life? She regularly winds up throwing herself on the bed at midnight, so stressed out that even her clothes hurt. Eileen McDargh, keynote speaker for The Women's Forum this weekend at Templin's Resort in Post Falls, has the cure.

From left: Mary Wilkinson, Janet Wunder and Brenda Von Brach at the film. Photo by Dan Pelle/The Spokesman-Review

A teleconference devoted to improving the lives of women and girls throughout the world will be telecast in Spokane on Saturday. The teleconference, called "America's Commitment: United Nations Women's Conference One Year Later," will be broadcast live via satellite to 400 sites in the country, including four in Washington state. It is a follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing last year.

1. The Great Depression left many children homeless. Above, The Rev. Harrison D. Brown and Libbie Beach Brown, founders of the Children's Home Society. 2. Orphans taken in by the society around the turn of the century. 3. The photographs were culled from historic archives throughout the state.

Darlene Cohen soothes the hand of Daya Goldschlag, who aches from a rafting trip. Cohen wrote "Arthritis: Stop Suffering and Start Moving." Photo by Shawn Jacobson/The Spokesman-Review

Darlene Cohen, the San Francisco author of "Arthritis: Stop Suffering, Start Moving," will present two workshops in Spokane next weekend. Cohen, who has a master's degree in physiological psychology, has suffered from rheumatoid arthritis herself for nearly 20 years. She has avoided drug therapy by applying zen meditation techniques and movement to her pain.

1. Christie Toribara holds the senior portrait of her son, Craig, who committed suicide last year. Toribara has become an advocate for teen-suicide prevention. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review 2. Craig as a youngster.

Elk antlers grace the homely log cabin at Osprey Inn. Photo by Jamie Tobias Neely/The Spokesman-Review

1. Sauer won medals in a 5K road race and a 1500-meter race walk at the recent Transplant Games. 2. Sally Sauer of Libby, Mont., was near death until she received her heart transplant 4-1/2 years ago. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review

Cherylee Bomstad holds the AIDS quilt panel she made for her son. Photo by Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review

Stone Creek Inn owner Patricia Johnson shares her Victorian mansion's secrets with her bed-and-breakfast guests. Photo by Jamie Tobias Neely/The Spokesman-Review

The board of the Unity Church of Truth has fired its charismatic, Irish-born husband-and-wife ministerial team after months of conflict. Board president Grant Sanborn announced the decision at a Wednesday evening service at the South Hill Unity church.

1. Brian Fox, 12, (left) and Bryan Pollock Lowe, 10, are mentally and physically exhausted after their first full day at Camp Chmepa. Photos by Liz Kishimoto/The Spokesman-Review 2. Buddy Korbel, 7, and his sister Erin, 14, listen as other kids sing songs at Camp Chmepa. Inset: Nic Wagner, 10, shows his emotions through art. 3. Stephanie Yanez, 12, (center) concentrates as her group plays a game on the beach at the grief camp on Lake Coeur d'Alene. 4. Spokane's Brian Fox, center, 12, and the rest of his group, the Flying Squirrels, follow the summer weekend camp director through the motions of the Superman Prayer before dinner.

Dr. Foster Cline's treatment of severely disturbed children was made nationally famous by the 1987 book "High Risk: Children Without A Conscience" by Ken Magid and Carole A. McKelvey. The forward was written by Congresswoman Pat Schroeder, and the book was featured on NBC's "Today" show, "Hour Magazine," the New York Times and Woman's Day. As a leader in the field of treatment for children with severe attachment disorders, Cline has been widely sought after for speaking engagements around the country and the world.

Benjamin Brucker (left), Lon Gibby (center) and Dr. Foster Cline (right) are collaborating on a multi-media parenting package. Photo by Christopher Anderson/The Spokesman-Review

From left, front: Michaele Dietzel and Terri Monaghan McKenzie; rear: Linda Kobe-Smith and Cathy Beckley meet at St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church. Photo by Dan Pelle/The Spokesman-Review

Nancy Friday, born a plain child, learned early the painful lessons of beauty. "I saw the power of it because I saw the cookies going to the other girls," Friday says of her girlhood in the South. She has grown up to write a series of provocative books, including "My Mother/My Self" on the mother-daughter relationship, "My Secret Garden" on women's sexual fantasies, and now "The Power of Beauty" (HarperCollins, $27.50). Like her previous books, it's filled with plenty of autobiography, revealing anecdotes and sexual confessions, more, certainly, than most readers probably want to know.

1. Fond farewell. The Very Rev. John Buenz greets arriving parishoners Sunday, his last day as dean at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist. Photo by Kristy MacDonald/The Spokesman-Review 2. Buenz holds up a hubcap given to him as a reminder of the church's role as a hub of the community.

With Jay Leno's haircut and Geraldo Rivera's voice, James Van Praagh is a medium made for television. A former broadcasting major, this Los Angeles psychic has become a minor celebrity, appearing on talk shows with Maury Povich and Joan Rivers and on NBC's "Unsolved Mysteries." He's also been a regular on an NBC daytime show called "The Other Side."

1. Schoffelmeer 2. People pray at a statue of the Virgin Mary in Medjugorje. File/Dallas Morning News

Hillary Swallom, 17, who gave a baby up to adoption in February, was honored Friday at a luncheon for birth mothers. Photo by Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review

Throughout the centuries, Scripture has been cited to justify everything from owning slaves to opposing anesthesia for women in childbirth. Today one of the most violent uses of Scripture occurs in the rhetoric of Christian Identity groups as justification for racism, anti-Semitism and civil war. One of the Montana freemen leaders, Dale Jacobi, mixed religious and racist language to describe his group's objectives. "It is a race war," he said before the stand-off with the FBI began last month. "It is a spiritual war between Satan's seed, Satan's children and God's children."

Margaret Walser brought her 10-year-old daughter, Eleacia, to Riverfront Park on Thursday morning to pray for the nation. Eleacia and her friend, Kellie Karstens, 10, carried a small American flag which flapped in the stiff breeze as they joined the National Day of Prayer observance. Approximately 250 people turned out on a windy spring morning to pray for local public officials, city workers and the perpetrators of recent acts of violence in Spokane.