| Housing slump hits Hovnanian hard
The Hovnanians have been building homes in New Jersey for almost a half-century, but the measure of their success was never more indelibly stamped than in a 1992 mishap, when the family's 123-foot yacht sank off Cape May. Outfitted with teak paneling, gold-plated fixtures and other luxuries, the $10 million sport-fishing boat seemed more worthy of an oil sheik than crafters of humble condos. .
Virginian finds local ties to family
What he has come up with this time is his second book, basically started in 1978, of one aspect of his father's family: the story of Belden Leslie Winters (1878-1928) and his wife, Anna Ora Eaton (1875-1956) If one were building a genealogical tree, this couple would be the ancestors of his grandmother, Estill Winters Fox, who was born in Coal Grove. Estill grew up in Lawrence County, married in 1919 and moved to Newport News, Va., in the 1930s where she spent the rest of her life. .
The Times ' Fishy Story Nevermind that scaremongering story about ...
New York Times reporter Marian Burros wrote herself onto Page One on Jan. 23 with a scaremongering story titled "High Mercury Levels Are Found in Tuna Sushi." Burros found that a regular, weekly diet of six pieces of the tuna sushi found in five Manhattan restaurants and stores "would exceed the levels considered acceptable by the Environmental Protection Agency" and quoted a professor of environmental and occupational medicine saying, "No one should eat a meal of tuna with mercury levels like those found in the restaurant samples more than about once every three weeks." As I write, the article is the fifth most popular e-mailed Times article. Before you jab yourself in the eyes with your chopsticks and swear off bluefin forever, consider the scientific findings on fish consumption.
Morgellons mystery: figment of imagination?
Sue Laws remembers the night it began. It was October 2004, and she'd been working in the basement home office of her Gaithersburg, Md., brick rambler where she helps her husband run their tree business. She was sitting at her computer getting the payroll out, when all of a sudden she felt as if she were being attacked by bees. The itching and s tinging on her back was so intense that she screamed for her husband, Tom. He bounded downstairs and lifted her shirt, but he couldn't see anything biting her. She insisted something must be. To prove there was nothing there, he stuck strips of thick packing tape to her back and ripped them off. Then they took the magnifying eyepiece that Tom, an arborist, uses to examine leaves for fungus and blight and peered at the tape. "That's when we saw them.
Base of France's foreign policy
After 1995, Mitterrand's successor, the neo-Gaullist Jacques Chirac, revived the anti-American gesticulations in their crudest form. Having carefully studied the experiences of De Gaulle, Mitterrand and Chirac, Sarkozy is trying to develop a policy that reflects today's realities and tomorrow's dangers. Sarkozy's three major predecessors started with the assumption that, when it came to any major international issue, the US was either the problem or the solution. Sarkozy starts with a quite different assumption. He starts the analysis of every issue with the assumption that the US is not involved, either as a problem or as a solution. Imagine, there is no US, he asks, are the European nations threatened by radical Islamism or not? Imagine there is no US, does the European Union depend on oil and gas imports from the Greater Middle East? Imagine there is no US, is the acquisition of nuclear weapons by the Khomeinist regime in Tehran good or bad for France and the European Union? Imagine there is no US, isn't Europe safer if Afghanistan and Iraq are transformed into friendly democracies rather than a safe haven for terrorists? Vital importance Having established the fact that an issue is of vital importance to France and the EU even if Christopher Columbus had not discovered America, Sarkozy then proceeds to ask another question.
New rules aim for quicker angioplasties for heart attack patients
Angioplasties such as this one, performed Wednesday at St. Luke's by physicians Steven Laster (right) and Sameer Mehta on patient Dolphford Bain, are a common procedure. Not all hospitals, however, are equipped to handle them on an emergency basis. .
Ask Dr. H | When to fix an incisional hernia
Question: I am an 89-year-old female who, after an operation to remove a perforated appendix, developed an abdominal-wall hernia. What do you recommend I do? Answer: One of the possible complications when surgeons make incisions in the abdominal wall to remove or treat an organ or blood vessel is weakness of the abdominal wall. The scar tissue that develops after an operation is never quite as strong as the original tissue. The scalpel cuts through skin, fat and muscle; scars form in all of it as the wound heals. The larger the incision, the greater the risk that an incisional hernia will eventually develop. This is one reason why laparoscopic surgery, using a lighted fiber-optic instrument and several small incisions, has become such a popular alternative to traditional surgery.
Soaring and roaring
It's one of Canada's poorest neighbourhoods, 50 per cent aboriginal as of the 2001 census. Mullin thundered, in fact, until WICM raised $2.4 million to build Anishinabe Place of Hope, a three-storey, 20-unit transitional apartment building, drop-in centre and church that opened four months ago at the corner of Logan Avenue and Laura Street. Simultaneously, Mullin has been an eagle, soaring on a quest -- guided by elders from Keeseekoowenin First Nation -- to reclaim sacred aboriginal traditions and help her 100-member congregation do the same. In both roles she has persevered against opposition, remaining rock-solid in her faith. Her pet peeve, she says, is hearing comfortable white Winnipeggers dismissively say, "They should just get a job!" about inner-city residents who lack food, clothing, safe housing, family support, education and child care.
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