At a party the other night, a fund-raiser for a literary magazine, I found myself in conversation with a well-known author whose work I greatly admire. I use the term “conversation” loosely. I couldn’t hear a word he said. But worse, the effort I was making to hear was using up so much brain power that I completely forgot the titles of his books.A senior moment? Maybe. (I’m 65.) But for me, it’s complicated...
California tomato farmer gets 6 years in prison for price-fixing
Label: Business A man who built one of California’s most successful food companies was sentenced to six years in prison for scheming to inflate...
Feb
11
Report: U.S. recovered $4.2 billion from healthcare fraud in 2012
Label: World ...
'Identity Thief' grabs $34.6M to debut at No. 1
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy's "Identity Thief" has made off with the weekend box-office title with a $34.6 million debut.The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Hollywood.com are:1....
Well: Picking Source of Baby's Milk
Label: HealthWhen Bevil Conway and his partner brought their premature twins home from the hospital, the two fathers felt it was important to keep them on a diet of breast milk. So the new parents purchased a couple of coolers and an extra freezer, and they started scouring Web sites for mothers with extra milk to share.They found a physician who was moving away; she gave them a stash of frozen milk she had pumped...
American-US Airways merger talks reportedly close to completion
Label: Business Merger talks between the parent company of American Airlines and US Airways continued Monday, with sources suggesting an announcement...
Feb
10
Ambitious makeover planned for old housing project
Label: World Denise Penegar puts a little extra effort into the teenage girls, the ones who've dropped out of high school to care for their...
Winners of the 2013 British Academy Film Awards
Label: LifestyleLONDON (AP) — Winners of the 2013 British Academy Film Awards, presented Sunday:Film — "Argo"British Film — "Skyfall"Director — Ben Affleck, "Argo"Actor — Daniel Day-Lewis, "Lincoln."Actress — Emmanuelle Riva, "Amour"Supporting Actor — Christoph Waltz, "Django Unchained"Supporting Actress — Anne Hathaway, "Les Miserables"Rising Star — Juno TempleBritish Debut — Bart Layton and Dimitri Doganis, "The...
For Families Struggling with Mental Illness, Carolyn Wolf Is a Guide in the Darkness
Label: HealthWhen a life starts to unravel, where do you turn for help? Melissa Klump began to slip in the eighth grade. She couldn’t focus in class, and in a moment of despair she swallowed 60 ibuprofen tablets. She was smart, pretty and ill: depression, attention deficit disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, either bipolar disorder or borderline personality disorder. In her 20s, after a more...
Fee increases are making FHA mortgages more expensive
Label: Business WASHINGTON — If you want to buy a house with minimal cash by using an FHA-insured mortgage, here's some sobering news: Because...
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