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As Boomers Retire, a Lack of Specialized Medical Care
The vast majority of Boomers say it is important that their physician have specialized training in dealing with older patients, but a majority say they cannot find such a doctor, according to the first annual Senior Health Index from American System for Advancing Senior Health, writes MarketingChart... [read on]
- Marketing Vox News
(5/9/2008)
Obama faces many challenges when he wins U.S. presidency
On the assumption that President Barack Obama survives for a full four-year term - for it is generally assumed that, as the first African-American president, he will face a higher than average risk of assassination - what changes will he bring to the United States and the world?
It is remarkably... [read on]
- By Gwynne Dyer, Niagara Falls Review, Canada
(5/9/2008)
Reports of news' death are greatly exaggerated
Others disagree: Campbell Reid, group editorial director for News Limited, the biggest newspaper publisher in Australia, believes the possibilities opened up by the explosion of media forms is "empowering" and that "if this is revolution, the opening shots have just been fired".
Bruce Wolpe, dire... [read on]
- By Matthew Ricketson, The Age, Australia
(5/9/2008)
Moms, supermodels down, want break on Mother's Day
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Like millions of mothers, supermodel Cindy Crawford is looking forward to breakfast in bed on Sunday to celebrate Mother's Day, then walking on the beach.
For while department stores, jewellers and florists go into overdrive for the day of the year that honours mothers, a... [read on]
- By Belinda Goldsmith, Reuters Life!
(5/9/2008)
Torch Song: Olympic Relay
HONG KONG -- Was China's Olympic-torch relay around the world a miserable failure or a surprising success?
Yes.
To observers in the U.S. and Europe, Beijing's international spectacle was a public-relations disaster as protesters in both those regions tried to snatch or snuff the torch. Outside... [read on]
- By GEOFFREY A. FOWLER, Wall Street Journal
(5/9/2008)
Paterson Announces $109M For Stem Cell Research
ALBANY—Nearly $109 million in new state funding is being made available to support stem cell research initiatives in New York, according to an announcement Thursday by Gov. David Paterson. The funding represents the second round of available funding from the state’s 11-year, $600 million stem cell r... [read on]
- North Country Gazette, NY
(5/9/2008)
Human rights activist urges China to grant pardons during Olympic year
BEIJING — With China's image battered by the turmoil over Tibet and the torch relay, a human rights activist is urging Chinese leaders to pardon long-jailed prisoners in a gesture that could help dispel the rancour surrounding the Beijing Olympics.
The pardon, requested in a letter by American ac... [read on]
- The Canadian Press, BEIJING
(5/9/2008)
How to Take a Gas Holiday
Even a road trip can feel like a luxury when it costs $75 to fill the fuel tank. That's why Ronelle Scardina, 39, scrapped plans to drive 400 miles to Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., this July and decided instead to rent a cabin on a lake just two hours from her home in San Rafael. "Prices are going ... [read on]
- By ANITA HAMILTON , TIME
(5/9/2008)
Puppet show politics
Ever diverting and often surprising, the Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton Punch and Judy show continues to draw excited crowds. But the longer the Democrats allow the push-and-shove to drag on despite the contest being effectively over, the greater the danger that the Republicans' presidential choice, J... [read on]
- By Simon Tisdall, Guardian Unlimited, UK
(5/9/2008)
Obama’s got his groove back
With the North Carolina and Indiana primaries now behind us, what do we know about the race for the White House? The answer is — a lot more than we knew on Tuesday morning.
What we have suspected for weeks we now essentially know – that the fall election for president will be a race between Repu... [read on]
- By JOHN ZOGBY, Utica Observer Dispatch, NY
(5/9/2008)
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