No I'm not talking about the Metropolitan Opera, I'm talking about preschool holiday shows. Sure, some schools don't bother, but darnit I'm glad my kid's school does. The season kicks off with the big Halloween show, which was yesterday, and ends with the semi-nondenominational holiday show sometime in December. I love all the performances the [...]
"Another thing you get as a cancer patient is a lot of football-coach patter. "You can beat this; you can win; you're strong; you're tough; get psyched." I suspect that cancer doesn't give a rat's ass whether you have a positive mental attitude. It just sits in there multiplying away, whether you are admirably stoic [...]
Today’s front page of the New York Times had a feature article about the quality of drugs and chemicals that have continued to flow out of China into the pharmaceutical industry. There are no regulations and no inspections of these chemical plants which means that many of the products being produced and sold throughout the [...]
Dr. Clinton T. Rubin, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and Director for Center for Biotechnology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is reporting that mice placed on a platform that buzzes for 15 minutes a day, five days a week have 27 percent less fat than mice that did not stand on the [...]
There is no simple or right answer to this question. There will come a time in many of our lives when we will be faced with this question. We will have to reach deeply into our souls, examine our lives and make a life and death decision. There are many compelling reason to not simply [...]