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Experts give the scoop on potting mix
You've built a raised bed or set out some pots. Before you plant, you've got empty space to fill. Here are three experts' suggestions for the best potting mix: Mel Bartholomew is Mr. Square Foot Garden, author of the 2005 Cool Springs Press book "All New...Tags: Education, University of California, Los Angeles
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Amos Kenan dies at 82; writer helped shape Israeli culture
Times Staff And Wire ReportsAmos Kenan, a novelist, newspaper columnist and sculptor who as a member of Israel's founding generation helped define modern Israeli culture, died in Tel Aviv on Tuesday. He was 82. He struggled with Alzheimer's disease for years, said Uri Avnery, a...Tags: Education, Health and Safety at School, Journalism, Documentary (genre), Activism
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Fred Travalena dies at 66; master impressionist and singer
Fred Travalena, the master impressionist and singer whose broad repertoire of voices ranged from Jack Nicholson to Sammy Davis Jr. to Bugs Bunny, has died. He was 66.
Travalena, who began treatment for an aggressive form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2002...Tags: Robert De Niro, Jackie Gleason, Death, Frank Gorshin, Katharine Hepburn
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'Spooner' by Pete Dexter
When it came to the subject of biographies, Sigmund Freud was at his most implacable: "Whoever undertakes to write a biography," he said, "binds himself to lying, to concealment, to hypocrisy, to flummery and even to hiding his own lack of understanding....Tags: Drug Trafficking, Death, Arts and Culture, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Crimes
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Getting a hotel to make it right
Bad things can happen at your hotel. Your reservation may be lost. The front desk agent may be rude. The room may be dirty. A naked man may be sitting on the bed. The room may be too hot or too cold, and the thermostat may not work. The TV in the next...Tags: Education, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Travel, Cornell University, Twitter, Inc.
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Ralph Fertig: Cog of justice
Since he was in elementary school more than seven decades ago, Ralph Fertig has been, by history's long calculus, one of the good guys -- a civil rights Freedom Rider, a fighter for the down-and-out and disenfranchised from Washington to Los Angeles,...Tags: FBI, World War I (1914-1918), Hospitals and Clinics, Turkey, Career and Workplace
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Panel recommends eliminating financial barriers to colorectal screening
Booster ShotsEliminating financial barriers and providing more direct contact among patients and physicians and providers are the best ways to improve the rate of screening for colorectal cancer, a National Institutes of Health Consensus Conference recommended... -
First Lady Michelle Obama takes heat for naming Sasha, Malia in campaign against childhood obesity
Top of the TicketThe cause is unassailable. One in three American kids, about 25 million, are obese or overweight. Obesity-related diseases cost the healthcare system $150 billion a year. And the rate of obesity in kids tripled in the United States between 1980...... -
Book Review: 'The 6-Week Cure for the Middle-Aged Middle' by Mary Dan Eades and Michael R. Eades
Booster ShotsThe weight can creep up on you. One day you realize your waistline is not as trim as it once was. Youâve got a little belly going where you once were flat and firm. Or maybe itâs not so little....... -
With prostate cancer treatment, who you see is often what you get
Booster ShotsIf you visit a Chevy dealer to buy a new car, the odds are pretty good that he is not going to recommend that you purchase a Ford. And he is even more likely not to recommend that you hang...... -
Brainpower: Think upkeep
IF you think of your brain as a car, the sleekest, fastest machine you'll ever own is a 20-year-old brain. It accelerates effortlessly and handles sharp turns with ease. It never stalls.
Whether you use that Maserati between your ears to actually go...Tags: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Johns Hopkins University, Education, Science and Technology, Health and Safety at School
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An invisible enemy in a runner's stride
The adage "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" doesn't always apply to distance runners.
Promising running careers can be interrupted or cut short -- and training goals derailed -- by overuse injuries known as stress fractures. Repeated pounding...Tags: Track and Field, David Geffen School of Medicine, College Sports, Track Cycling, Osteoporosis
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