: …The role of consumers has had considerable attention … because the economy desperately needs additional spending… But it is not … the responsibility of middle-income families to provide that spending. If … families want to … pay down their bills or save a little more, concerns about the economy shouldn’t stop them.
Government is in a far better position to provide immediate economic stimulus. … [E]ven by mortgaging itself Read the rest of this entry »
In Orlando, a 38-year-old contractor suffers from erectile dysfunction, a side effect of the drug he takes for depression. The anti-ED prescription his doctor gave him doesn’t help. He seeks steroids instead.
And in a town north of Seattle, an eighth-grade boy wants steroids for school sports. If he can get his weight up to 170, he thinks he can make the football team.
Here, from the business records of a Florida wellness center that was closed Read the rest of this entry »
Two policemen are still in hospital with serious injuries after a collision between a Mitsubishi Evolution and a police car early on Saturday morning.
A 28-year-old man from Great Yarmouth has been released on bail after he was arrested on suspicion of drink driving and failing to stop for police.
The Mitsubishi failed to stop for police in Belvedere Road, Lowestoft.
Four men were injured after it was followed and collided with a marked police Read the rest of this entry »
Shirley Weber, a volunteer with the Coalition to Save Our Mental Health Centers, said she was shocked by the plan and feared that many severely mentally ill people would lose access to services. Her daughter was diagnosed with a form of schizophrenia 20 years ago at age 21.
“I could lie down and cry, but it wouldn’t do any good,” Weber told Mason at the meeting of the city’s Board of Health, where the cuts were announced.
“Where are they all Read the rest of this entry »
The brain fitness industry is mind-boggling. So which head games really work?
Is your brain switched to autopilot? If you’ve hit age 25 or so, it probably is.
Time to start exercising.
The notion of fitness for the brain has arrived — via video games, Internet sites and best-selling puzzle books. The lexicon includes terms such as “neurobics” and “brain calisthenics.”
Brain training may be trendy, and some Read the rest of this entry »
’s pick for health and human services secretary,
, failed to pay more than $128,000 in taxes, partly for free use of a car and driver that had been provided to him by a prominent businessman and Democratic fund-raiser, administration officials said Friday.
Mr. Daschle, concluding that he owed the taxes, filed amended returns and paid more than $140,000 in back taxes and interest on Jan. 2, the officials said.
The car and driver were provided Read the rest of this entry »