To The Rescue

	Rx for Healing: Laughs Robin Williams teams up with Steven Spielberg's Starbright Foundation to take ailing children on magical rides from their hospital rooms.

	Trying to Help A crippling disease has united an American family with Estonian Aul Pedajas, who has been trying to emigrate to the United States for treatment.

	Georgia's Real World Blindness and, later in life, deafness have never stopped Georgia Griffith from learning and growing. But she didn't fully inhabit what she calls "my real world" until she went online.

	Universal Health Care Information is power, including the power to heal. That's why health workers in Africa and elsewhere are spending time in cyberspace.

	Web Delivers the News Two Muslim students at the University of Oklahoma were the first to post speculation that the Oklahoma City bombers might not be Islamic extremists. Suddenly, the world's eyes were on their website.

	Story of Will's Page A father publishes an online journal of his four-year-old son's battle with leukemia.

	Out of the Depths Furious and suicidal after a yearlong illness left him seriously impaired, David Winder hit the streets, the bottle, and rock bottom before he found a new life as Wavey Davey, punk leader of London's underground cyberculture.

	Nowhere to Hide Terrorists, watch out: Your mug shot may be hanging in the U.S. State Department's Most Wanted gallery -- on the Web, of course.

	Final Struggle Austin Bastable wants to end his life -- ideally, he'd like to do it legally. The 53-year-old Canadian, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, has turned to the Internet to state his case.

	Labor of Love After an indifferent medical bureaucracy turned his mother's death into a cruel farce, John Hofsess developed DeathNet, a website for people who believe in the right to die.