Archive for March, 2006

Hearing Loss: Increasingly common, it's often correctable

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Hearing Loss: Increasingly common, it's often correctableSalt Lake Tribune - John Taylor has had hearing aids for two years; in-the-canal aids are hardly visible."I would dare say I'm not up to where I would like to be, but it's better than before,"he said of his hearing. (Ryan Galbraith/The Salt Lake Tribune ) The Aug. 11 […]

Lounge acts take jazz easy

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Lounge acts take jazz easyIn-Forum - Some who knew Michael Helm back in his 20s might be more than a little baffled to see him on his new job. Could that possibly be that same brawny young man who swayed his almost waist-length mane behind the drums of his Mandan, N.D., heavy metal band […]

I was told my shelf life, then I received another man s heart

Friday, March 31st, 2006

I was told my shelf life, then I received another man s heart New Straits Times - The doctors gave him six months to live after he suffered a heart attack. Albert Gunaratnam looked at his two teenage daughters and vowed to see them through adulthood. Eight years later, […]

Books : Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

Books : Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesScience Daily - Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance
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Chiming in on AK-47, more great college hoops

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

Chiming in on AK-47, more great college hoopsFOXSports.com - Anyone who's watched Memphis play this year had to be surprised to see them get shut down by UCLA yesterday. The Tigers can put up 45 points in a half easily, and the Bruins held them to 45 total . That's even crazier considering that when […]