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Artist takes life-affirming action after cancer
Connie Allen was 43 when she discovered a latent talent. “I woke up one morning and did a portrait,” said Allen. No one was more
Farewell, Mikael the Mime
Mikael Rudolph, a mime, actor, dancer, teacher and political activist, passed away Fri., Feb. 26, at his home in Minneapolis. He was 51. I first met ...
The Cane Mutiny
I was reluctant to use my cane even after I bought it. I figured I might need one eventually so I chose a plain black ...
Art competition seeks artists touched by cancer
Adult artists touched by cancer are invited to take part in the 2010 Oncology On CanvasSM Expressions of a Cancer Journey competition and exhibition sponsored ...
Climate humor: Ask and ye shall receive
Yesterday Michael Cosgrove lamented the lack of dark humor and satire surrounding the climate talks at Copenhagen. He suggested it might break the tedious and ...
Illuminating Health Care for All
“Jeff's right that when it comes to our health care grid, America resembles a developing country,” commented George Trone, PhD, managing editor at The Yale ...
...And to Forgive….Divine
Slid from the street into the subway on a black rainy morning to join the other black-clad human statues placed respectfully apart. Two minutes later ...
Poem: Pre-existing Conditions -- Jeff McCallum
Pre-existing Conditions Cultures where the aged and dying, The toothless and slow wander off, Trek as purposefully as their unstable gait allows Toward the wilderness, the elephant burial ground To ...
Jesse Springer returns as Science Idol
Jesse Springer, graphic designer and part-time editorial cartoonist in Eugene, OR, took the honors in this year's Science Idol contest. Springer won with ...
Time to choose the 2009 Science Idol
The Union of Concerned Scientists has opened voting for its fourth annual Science Idol cartoon contest. This year UCS invited celebrity cartoonists to submit editorial ...
H1N1 (swine flu): 'Menace or media hype?'
Now that the country has mostly moved beyond H1N1 stage 4 or 5 alerts from the WHO, nonstop breaking news flashes, knee jerk outbursts from politicians (er, scratch ...
Mime uses humor to put cancer in its place
When the brother traveled to Italy to bolster his sister after she was hospitalized with a stroke, it seemed inconceivable that they’d soon both be ...
Embrace the Wheel - poems by Roy M. Nuzzo, MD
Embrace the Wheel On the grit of mortality It is heavy. Lightened by goodness You float. Empty hands let it roll. Break for innocence. Renewed as a child. Embrace the wheel, but make it sing ...
Where do Minnesota robins go in the winter?
I was surprised to look out my window this morning and see a flock of six or seven robins on my step. Why? Well, first, ...
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- US plans to speed personalized breast cancer drugs to market
- Bush loyalists still touting, getting away with torture
- Artist takes life-affirming action after cancer
- Los Angeles museum launches backyard lizard census
- Airport scammers
- Where do Minnesota robins go in the winter?
- Airport scammers
- California zealot seeks to ban divorce in the state with ballot proposition
- Public embraces holistic healing, conventional medicine follows
- The Great Climate Debate commits suicide
- SCOTUS ruling: Is Clean Water Act only valid for navigable waters?
- War is hell on the brain: Doctors map psychological disorders in Gaza and the West Bank
- Future aircraft ‘Black Boxes’ will stream data to earth in real time
- Natural gas drilling: What we don’t know
- Monitoring, training reduce restraint use in the ICU
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