| January 2008
But Ken also notes that his mailbag has been filled the past week with comments from Edwards supporters who believe that the media have written off Edwards as a serious candidate. Don't forget, they point out, that Clinton was being written off by the media before New Hampshire, Romney before Michigan and McCain was all but buried last summer. But then came Nevada, where Edwards finished with only four percent. Ken writes that the next test for Edwards is South Carolina. It's not do-or-die time, but it's a state he did win four years ago during his first run. "But if not South Carolina, then where?" 2:05 PM ET | 01-24-2008 | permalink | comments (4) | e-mail post | trackbacks (0) .
Coming of age
The throng of Vietnamese family and friends who spent their days around Dorchester Avenue - the Hub's little Little Saigon - sipping green tea or playing chess before they, too, departed. "We want to be buried next to each other," Nguyen says of his community. Precisely where his tomb will lie, Nguyen does not know. He has no burial plot in hand. "No money," Nguyen says in distinct English. But he wants it to be in a place that's as comfortable as a Buddhist flower garden, so that the presiding monk can feel totally at ease when he comes to Nguyen's grave and, abiding by tradition, sets his spirit free with powerful chants. With remains now dispersed among different graveyards, from the city to the suburbs, an informal group representing more than 300 Vietnamese elders like Nguyen is hoping to establish its own central burial ground in Boston, one with a price its members can squeeze into their strained budgets.
Game of the Week: Washington State at Arizona State
Furthermore, he has stepped up his play since conference games began, scoring at least 20 points in each of the first four Pac-10 contests. Joining him on the wing is fellow freshman Ty Abbott. He is a good three-point shooter and scorer who needs to develop some consistency as his career progresses. In the Sun Devils' four-guard lineup, Jerren Shipp and Derek Glasser also start. Shipp does a little of everything and can knock down shots, while Glasser is a very solid point guard who takes care of the ball at an unbelievable rate. His assist-to-turnover ratio is nearly four-to-one. Christian Polk sees minutes off the bench, although he hasn't played in three of the last four games. Jamelle McMillan backs up at the point. Arizona State usually utilizes four perimeter players and one big man on the floor.
Phoning while driving ban among goals
Oh and they actually enforce speed limits and traffic ordinances. If downtown is a 20mph speed zone, it is enforced. Finally, as a licensed driver, cell phone user, and someone who has been accident free for over 15 years, I would support the ban completely...with one condition. Apply it equally to law enforcement and public workers. If the private citizen can't do it, why should those who serve us be exempt. I'm sure that my remarks will generate some heat. Great! " .
Sandy finds a remedy for heartache
Their two-year relationship is history, the perfect couple who make their living from telling the rest of us how to live our lives have gone their separate ways – on a personal level, at least.Still, at least Sandy has his own way of handling the misery of a painful breakup – meditation. "I'm going away in the summer to Greece to meditate for two and a half months," he explains. "I was with Amanda for two years before we split up. I found it quite hard to deal with really. I've refocused my efforts into what I'm passionate about, to enjoy peace, happiness and health and make sure I have got a better work-life balance."Peace and happiness are his mantra – he's even created his own word to define the holy grail that most of his clients tell him they want more than anything. "I call it happeaceness, it's a word I came up with for a bit of fun," he says, breaking into a broad 'TV presenter' smile.
The audacity of John Edwards' farce
There's losing. There's losing honorably. And then there's John Edwards. Mike Huckabee is not going to be president. The loss in South Carolina, one of the most highly evangelical states in the union, made that plain. With a ceiling of 14 percent among nonevangelical Republicans, Huckabee's base is simply too narrow. But his was not a rise and then a fall. He came from nowhere to establish himself as the voice of an important national constituency. Huckabee will continue to matter, and might even carry enough remaining Southern states to wield considerable influence at a fractured Republican convention. Fred Thompson will also not be president. His campaign failed, but quite honorably. He never tacked. He never dissimulated. He refused to reinvent himself. He presented himself plainly and honestly.
The Many Faces of Big Pharma’s Disease Mongering
Most people blame Big Pharma and the docs in its pocket for elevating everyday anxiety to depression, depression to bipolar disease and childhood behavior problems to major psychiatric diseases. But there are others to thank for the national pathology of creating and treating diseases that aren't even there. There's the 200 US medical education and communication companies (MECCs) who ghostwrite journal articles for Big Pharma–"just sign here, Doc; we've reviewed the data"–for $20,000 to $40,000 per article. Like Complete Healthcare Communications (CHC) whose phalanx of 40 medical writers, editors and librarians has submitted over 500 manuscripts to journals for clients Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis, Wyeth, Schering-Plough and AstraZeneca according to its promotional materials, with an acceptance rate of 80 percent.
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