ATLANTA — After enjoying yet another successful season, Brian McCann entered this offseason feeling more concerned than content. Consequently, the Braves All-Star catcher has spent the past two months making sacrifices and looking forward to the improved results he hopes to realize during the 2009 season.
While eating better and running three times a week, McCann has already dropped more than 20 pounds, dropping from 248 to 226 — approximately Read the rest of this entry »
De Villiers – takes a gamble.
South Africa coach Peter de Villiers admitted he was “prepared for all eventualities” after taking a gamble on the fitness of Bakkies Botha for Saturday’s Test against Wales in Cardiff.
Botha made a surprise return to the starting line-up named by De Villiers on Tuesday, just 24 hours after team doctor Craig Roberts said the player would only be able to play for around 30 minutes given his current fitness levels. Read the rest of this entry »
The Israeli army is investigating at the highest level five recent attacks against civilian targets in Gaza, including two U.N. facilities and ahospital.
An army spokesman speaking on condition of anonymity under military guidelines said Saturday that preliminary investigations into all five incidents indicate that soldiers were responding to fire from or near the buildingshit.
But he said all five would be investigated at the command level and Read the rest of this entry »
Brooklyn prosecutors and police internal affairs officers are investigating allegations that uniformed New York City police officers beat and sodomized a man in a Brooklyn subway station, officials and lawyers for the man said on Thursday.
The lawyers identified the man as Michael Mineo, 24, of Brooklyn, an employee at a Brooklyn tattoo parlor. He was issued a summons for disorderly conduct on Oct. 15, they said, after three officers pinned him Read the rest of this entry »
In this installment of Health Care Watch, Stuart M. Butler and Ezekiel Emanuel talk about what the candidates are saying about taxes and employer-sponsored health care coverage. Go to
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Ezekiel Emanuel, an oncologist, is the chairman of the department of bioethics at the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health. He is the author of “Health Care, Guaranteed: A Simple, Secure Solution for America.”(
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ON the eve of a new season, the most successful coach in Super 14 history didn’t want his players leg-fresh and ready to explode.
If anything, Robbie Deans wanted them slightly knackered.
After an intensive pre-season conditioning program right up to round one, the former Crusaders mentor demanded one box was ticked above all others before Super 14 begins.
“That you’ve built your engine,” Deans said. “That you have done all your conditioning Read the rest of this entry »
CHICO WOMEN’S HEALTH SPECIALISTS: 4-7 p.m. Celebrate 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade with pro-choice supporters from the community to honor the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. Will have clinic tours, refreshments and conversation. 1469 Humboldt Road, Suite 200. Christine Lapado and Chris Wenger provide entertainment. 891-1917, ext. 210.
BLUE ROOM THEATRE: 7:30 p.m. “Tender Yellow Sky.” Satiric musical; adaptation and reinvisioning of Read the rest of this entry »
America remains a “yes, we can” kind of nation, but the aspirations of the vast middle class are under strain – enough to be the subject of a presidential task force.
President-elect Obama made it official earlier this week. Come January, a key job of Vice President Joseph Biden will be to come up with ways to boost middle-class incomes and to address related concerns about job and retirement security.
Of course, the very phrase “middle Read the rest of this entry »
It’s the second most popular New Year’s resolution for 2009, just behind spending more time with friends and family: lose weight and get fit.
The benefits are easy to spot, including lowered blood pressure, mobility improvements, looking and feeling younger.
But as more and more Americans are considered overweight, the health-club industry continues to grow.
Here in Visalia, there are nine clubs to choose from, some offering group classes, the Read the rest of this entry »
Ginkgo biloba has been prized for centuries for its suspected memory-boosting effects. But the largest study to date has shown that ginkgo does not, in fact, decrease the risk of dementia.
The study, which appears in next week’s Journal of the American Medical Association, followed over 3,000 volunteers who were 75 years or older. Half were given a ginkgo supplement every day, while the other half were given a placebo, or sugar pill.
The participants Read the rest of this entry »