At a party the other night, a fund-raiser for a literary magazine, I found myself in conversation with a well-known author whose work I greatly admire. I use the term “conversation” loosely. I couldn’t hear a word he said. But worse, the effort I was making to hear was using up so much brain power that I completely forgot the titles of his books.A senior moment? Maybe. (I’m 65.) But for me, it’s complicated...
Chicago leads nation in gas-price spikes
Label: Business Drivers in Chicago are seeing a painful rise in gas prices get even worse this month. The average price of regular unleaded...
Feb
11
Charges in Hadiya Pendleton slaying could come soon: McCarthy
Label: World Charges could come this evening against two people being questioned in the shooting death of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton, Police...
Mother’s obsessive love exposed in Romanian movie at Berlin
Label: LifestyleBERLIN (Reuters) – Actress Luminita Gheorghiu plays a domineering mother trying to save her son from jail in “Child’s Pose”, a stark family drama from Romania competing in this year’s Berlin film festival.The movie, directed by Calin Peter Netzer, shines an unforgiving light on the casual corruption and flashy materialism of post-communist Romania’s upper middle class which expects to be able to buy...
Catholic Bishops Reject Contraception Compromise
Label: Health The bishops said they would continue fighting the federal mandate in court. The administration said the proposal, issued last Friday, would guarantee free employee coverage of birth control “while respecting religious concerns” of organizations that objected to paying or providing for it. The bishops said the proposal seemed to address part of their concern about the definition of religious...
Maker's Mark lowering proof to meet demand
Label: Business In response to rapidly increasing demand for bourbon, Maker's Mark announced it is reducing the amount of alcohol in the spirit...
Feb
10
Inmate held without bond in plot to kill 11-year-old girl and family
Label: World A man jailed on charges of having sex with an 11-year-old girl was ordered held without bond after he tried to hire someone to kill the girl, her 16-year-old sister...
Day-Lewis as Lincoln seeks home triumph at BAFTAs
Label: LifestyleLONDON (Reuters) – Stilettos sank into a sodden red carpet as stars of the silver screen gathered in cold and rainy London on Sunday for the BAFTAs, with freezing fans hoping Daniel Day-Lewis would warm British hearts with a best actor win for his role in “Lincoln”.Rain turned to snow as the first nominees appeared, but the dreadful weather did not deter fans three rows deep who waited for hours to...
For Families Struggling with Mental Illness, Carolyn Wolf Is a Guide in the Darkness
Label: HealthWhen a life starts to unravel, where do you turn for help? Melissa Klump began to slip in the eighth grade. She couldn’t focus in class, and in a moment of despair she swallowed 60 ibuprofen tablets. She was smart, pretty and ill: depression, attention deficit disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, either bipolar disorder or borderline personality disorder. In her 20s, after a more...
The fine line between legitimate businesses and pyramid schemes
Label: Business Controversy is again casting a shadow over the multilevel marketing industry, as nutritional supplement company Herbalife Inc.,...
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