When Kyle Potvin learned she had breast cancer at the age of 41, she tracked the details of her illness and treatment in a journal. But when it came to grappling with issues of mortality, fear and hope, she found that her best outlet was poetry.How I feared chemo, afraidIt would change me.It did.Something dissolved inside me.Tears began a slow drip;I cried at the news storyOf a lost boy found in the...
Southern California gasoline prices soar 23 cents in a week
Label: Business Expect a bit of a shock if you fill up your gas tanks in Southern California this week.The average price of a gallon of regular...
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L.A. County removing metal detectors from some hospital facilities
Label: World It was typically chaotic in the emergency room at Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center that February day in 1993. Richard May...
BlackBerry searching high and low in India, Indonesia
Label: TechnologyNEW DELHI/JAKARTA (Reuters) – Research in Motion Ltd must chart a tough course in its two key emerging markets of India and Indonesia: quickly launch cheaper handsets to woo lower-end subscribers while restoring its tattered brand among the countries’ status-conscious.The company, which is rebranding itself BlackBerry after its best-known smartphone, has won millions of followers in these two Asian...
In Super Bowl broadcast, CBS hopes for history
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — Ratings glory hangs in the balance for CBS's broadcast of the Super Bowl.Three years running, the NFL's championship game has set a viewership record, topped last year by NBC's broadcast to an average audience of 111.3 million people.But ratings are a mere point of pride for CBS heading into kickoff. The ads have already been sold (some at more than $4 million a pop), so the network...
Concerns About A.D.H.D. Practices and Amphetamine Addiction
Label: HealthBefore his addiction, Richard Fee was a popular college class president and aspiring medical student. "You keep giving Adderall to my son, you're going to kill him," said Rick Fee, Richard's father, to one of his son's doctors. VIRGINIA BEACH — Every morning on her way to work, Kathy Fee holds her breath as she drives past the squat brick building that houses Dominion Psychiatric Associates. ...
Love, money and the online dating industry
Label: Business At the heart of the new book "Love in the Time of Algorithms" is a philosophical question: does the billion-dollar dating industry,...
The Next PlayStation: 5 Lessons I Hope Sony’s Learned
Label: TechnologyFrom wishful thinking to shockingly sudden all-but-certainty, Sony‘s next game system may be here at last (I’ll try to avoid calling it things Sony hasn’t, like “PlayStation 4″ or “Orbis”), apparently head-faking Microsoft to debut earlier than expected at what’ll no doubt be a media circus in New York (and online) come Feb. 20.The event invite cleared my inbox last night accompanied by, well,...
CeeLo, Kyle Bush, others party for Super Bowl
Label: LifestyleNEW ORLEANS (AP) — CeeLo was looking for a little New Orleans action. David Gregory was taking the weekend off from "Meet the Press." And Paul McCartney was hanging out at a party that included Pitbull and Flo Rida.It was a rich and eclectic mix of stars of all wattages on Friday night, as partying got under way in earnest before Sunday's big game.CeeLo was the featured performer at ESPN Magazine's...
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