| Brookline Store Owner Gives $1 Million Lottery Ticket As Gift
BROOKLINE, Pa. -- A gift that only cost $20 ended up being worth $1 million. Nobody was more surprised than the man who gave it. He's a pharmacy owner who gave a lucky gift to someone he loves. It all began days before Christmas, when the owner of the Medicine Shoppe in Brookline, Fred Depasquale, bought 30 tickets in his store, for the lottery's millionaire raffle. At $20 each, Depasquale gave most of those tickets to family and friends as Christmas gifts. Depasquale kept five of the tickets for himself and admitted that he and his family members forgot about them and never bothered to check their numbers the night of the lottery. When the Lottery Commission came knocking on his door Monday to say he sold one of the winning tickets, Depasquale's wife told the relatives to check their numbers.
Mystery behind trading scandal
They emerged more than two hours later with two large, black leather cases and one briefcase, but did not talk to reporters.
Meanwhile, skeptics from Kerviel's neighbors to France's prime minister questioned whether Kerviel could have manipulated such unfathomable sums -- comparable to a small country's annual economy -- all alone.
The bank insists he was a lone operator.
"When we interviewed him during the night Saturday and Sunday, he imagined that he had discovered methods able to win money on the markets," said Jean-Pierre Mustier, chief executive of the bank's corporate and investment banking arm.
Societe Generale says Kerviel's actions cost it 4.9 billion euros, or more than $7 billion. It has not explained his motivations and said the transactions didn't earn him any money.
Business briefcase
How she started: Duran owns a health food store next door and decided to buy the coffee shop from the previous owners in August. She also plans to open a fitness center in the plaza in February.
What's different: She said she got rid of a lot of the syrups and smoothies that didn't have natural ingredients.
How she got interested: She's been learning about mixing through her interest in health foods.
Her favorite drink: An organic Dominican mocha. She said she's working on a lot of new drinks such as a mudslide-flavored drink.
Why she came to Dayton: She moved from Washoe County seven years ago because land was cheaper.
What's next: She's going to bring in soups, salads and sandwiches soon.
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Local Pharmacies Who Do and Don't Carry Plan B
Plan B, the emergency contraception, is known as a back-up method for preventing pregnancy. It's been available at Planned Parenthood, but now you can get it without a prescription at pharmacies if they carry it. You have to be 18 or older to get it.
But, we found out some pharmacies in Lufkin, do not even carry it.
Michelle Green, with Planned Parenthood, said, "The FDA approved this emergency contraceptive to be available over the counter status for individuals. The whole purpose is that women could have access to this medication. If you don't carry it you have no access."
The East Texas News spoke to Abeldt's Pharmacy, who says they won't carry it because of the controversy involved. Timberland Discount Pharmacy won't carry it for personal reasons.
Earth: A Borderline Planet For Life?
Recycling is important even on a planetary scale," Valencia explained. Valencia and her colleagues, Richard O'Connell and Dimitar Sasselov (Harvard University), examined the extremes to determine whether plate tectonics would be more or less likely on different-sized rocky worlds. In particular, they studied so-called "super-Earths"-planets more than twice the size of Earth and up to 10 times as massive. (Any larger, and the planet would gather gas as it forms, becoming like Neptune or even Jupiter.) The team found that super-Earths would be more geologically active than our planet, experiencing more vigorous plate tectonics due to thinner plates under more stress. Earth itself was found to be a borderline case, not surprisingly since the slightly smaller planet Venus is tectonically inactive.
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