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Play based on a life becomes a story that touches all
"Write about your own life" says many a writing teacher to many a young scribe. Confronted with that authoritative solipsism, the young writer tends to worry about two things. First, that my life is not interesting enough to write about, especially not...
Tags: Celebrities, Human Interest, Arts and Culture, Wars and Interventions, Armed Conflicts
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Doctor whose work saved millions reflects on career
The publication of Alfred Sommer's new memoir, "10 Lessons in Public Health," comes precisely 30 years after the publication of the most important thing he's ever written: "Increased mortality in children with mild vitamin A deficiency," a report of a...
Tags: Health Organizations, Viral Diseases and Infections, Flu, UNICEF, Arts and Culture
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Get out and train with these three cool tools
It looks like spring really does exist in Washington County. I don't know about you, but I've had my fill of cold weather and snow, so spring couldn't be more welcome. With warm weather, we get an increase in fitness options and locations that were...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Rash mines gold in new collection
What I thought we had here was a failure to originate. While Ron Rash clearly hijacked a "Cool Hand Luke" outline for his short story "The Trusty," what transpires is less stealing and more shaping as Rash leads off his new collection of stories...
Tags: OxyContin (drug), Theft
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Don't punish people who really need painkillers
It's not enough that medical insurance companies want to dictate how much and what kind of treatment our illnesses deserve. Now legislators and law enforcement agencies are butting in, trying to curtail the use of high-powered painkillers because too...Tags: Substance Abuse, Morphine (drug), Pain, Hydrocodone (drug), Vicodin (drug)
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'The Connection': '60s shocker returns, with emeritus status ✭✭✭
Two time capsules in one, "The Connection" premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1961 and received a scant, notorious U.S. release in 1962, its rough language (for the time) causing all sorts of censorship troubles. Bring-down, man! Total bring-down....
Tags: Entertainment, Steve Buscemi, The New York Times, Arts and Culture, Movies
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'House I Live In' explores war on drugs and its toll on America ★★★
Taking on a hellacious societal problem, a documentary filmmaker benefits from finding a narrow path leading to the heart of that problem — a specific angle, an image, a detail, that opens up to the wider world and a host of provocations. Eugene...
Tags: Entertainment, Cocaine, Richard Nixon, The House I Live In (movie), The Wire (tv program)
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Natural solutions for blood pressure drug side effects
Dear Pharmacist: I keep stopping my blood pressure medications because of side effects, mainly fatigue, dizziness and leg cramps! Please help me solve this, or recommend different medicine? — A.P., Tucson, Ariz. Dear A.P.: This is a great question...
Tags: Dizziness, Atenolol (drug), Mineral Supplements, Enalapril (drug), Potassium (dietary supplement)
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Demagoguery 101: The Obama touch
"I'm going to do my part to lead a constructive and civil debate on these issues."
— Barack Obama, speech on immigration, El Paso, Texas, May 10
WASHINGTON — Constructive and civil debate — like the one Obama initiated just four...Tags: Washington (U.S. state), El Paso, Elections, Crimes, Illegal Immigrants
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An insider's view of generic-drug pricing
Bob Toomajian worked for 16 years as Kaiser Permanente's drug purchasing manager for Southern California, giving him an insider's knowledge of how medications are priced before reaching consumers. When it comes to patented name-brand drugs, he told me,...
Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Consumers, U.S. Supreme Court, Insurance, Science and Technology
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Advances in science are among mankind's greatest achievements
The pessimist might be tempted to look at mankind's most turbulent history since history began and be discouraged about the future. Many evils have been perpetrated by humans, including wars, genocide and massacres. Despite the sometimes tragic nature...Tags: Diarrhea, Viral Diseases and Infections, Flu, Preventative Medicine, Smallpox
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Bingo event set for April 14
Hagerstown Day Nursery will hold a Longaberger/Vera Bradley bingo event Sunday, April 14, at the Elks Lodge on Robinwood Drive in Hagerstown. Tickets cost $25 in advance or $30 at the door for 25 games and a meal. Doors open at 11:30 a.m., the meal will...Tags: Satellite Technology, Social Issues, Arts and Culture, Vaccines, Arts
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