In 1996, Jim Egan of Waikiki had a stem cell transplant to save his life. He was suffering from leukemia. Today, he is the picture of health, playing golf or working out nearly every day. He also has segued from graphic art, his profession, to digital art, his passion. A digital painting of a bird of paradise he created for the cover of the Bone Marrow Transplant Network's calendar has now been reproduced on a silk scarf, available online at wwww.bmtinfonet.org for $32. The flower represents the beauty of a restored life, Egan said, while the background is the dawning of renewed hope.

— Paula Rath

HEALTH STUDY

REGULAR EXERCISE JABS AT STRESS

To anyone who has ever left-hooked a punching bag in the name of pull-your-hair-out stress: Keep it up! Exercise tames tension by raising the amount of mood-boosting endorphins in the body. And you don't have to be Laila Ali to get rewards: A Finnish study shows that people who exercise just two or three times a week are significantly less likely to feel stressed than those who don't.

— Fitness magazine

FINAL WORD

"There always is (uncertainty) about whether or not you'll be back, especially for me with the story ending so nicely. But ... There's a possible story line there."

Henry Ian Cusick | Desmond Hume on "Lost" — in Lost: The Magazine