| More people turning to DYI funerals
Access, $20. • "Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial" by Mark Harris, Scribner, $24. • "A Family Undertaking," a PBS documentary available on Netflix or for sale from Fanlight Productions, 4196 Washington St., No. 2, Boston, MA 02131, or call 1-800-937-4113. ONLINE Home funeral organizations and funeral advocacy groups can be found at: • Crossings.net • Finalpassages.org • Funeralinformation society.org • Funerals.org .
Make Ny Day
The last thing I need is to buy stock from some mouth-breathing spammer who thinks I'm going to invest my life's savings into an investment this idiot can't spell. Never take financial or pharmaceutical advice you get by email. I blow across the top of the BlackBerry, spin it around my finger, and reholster it. I relax a bit, but my hand never strays far from my belt. Unfortunately, my BlackBerry is also wreaking havoc on my eyesight and attention to detail. The problem is that when I read my emails, I don't always see every word on the screen. As a result, I sometimes miss important information. "Do you want to meet for coffee?" fellow humorist Dick Wolfsie wrote to me one day. "Sure, what day?" I tapped back. "Let me see if this clears it up. Do you want to have coffee ON TUESDAY." I checked the first message.
Gallup: Sugar refinery blast proved value of a trauma network
By DR. Pamela Gallup Here's a future scenario for Georgia: Joe is a hospital maintenance worker. I delivered his children and we have a good relationship. One day, Joe was working on the lighting system in the parking garages and noted something curious - all the physician cars had football helmets in them. He asked why. "Joe," I said, "you need to get a football helmet for each person in your family and have them wear it while you are driving. There is only one Level One Trauma Unit left in the state, and it is overwhelmed. There are no neurosurgeons left in the area. If you get a bad head injury, there is no one to take care of you." Georgia is in desperate need of adequate funding for the statewide trauma network. After the Feb.
Guest Commentary: Waterboarding the truth: The attorney general of ...
And yet, on Jan. 6, the Associated Press reported the White House said waterboarding is legal. Prove it, Mukasey. Largely overlooked in the press coverage of Mukasey's evasiveness - much more sophisticated than Alberto Gonzales' - were his answers concerning Steven G. Bradbury, the longtime acting head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, which is charged with monitoring the legality of the department's actions - or inactions. The president keeps unsuccessfully and insistently renominating .
Palmetto Politics
We're live with results from the South Carolina GOP primary, where tonight John McCain pulled off a big win. Also today, the Nevada caucuses, where Hillary Clinton beat back a tough challenge from Barack Obama, and Mitt Romney cruised to an easy win over his rivals in the Republican field. But first, to the Palmetto State, where tonight veterans and self-described moderate voters helped propel John McCain to victory over his chief rival there, Mike Huckabee. For more on that, I'm joined by Republican pollster Whit Ayers. Whit Ayers, thanks for being here. Ayers: Hey, Paul. How are you? Gigot: I'm great, thanks. Big win tonight for John McCain. Eight years ago it didn't go so well for him. What did he do differently tonight that gave him the victory that didn't happen eight years ago? Ayers: It has to be an awfully sweet win tonight after the bitter loss eight years ago.
Dentistry: From the Medieval Barber to Our Cosmetic Dentistry
The dental profession has come an amazingly long way from its humble days in barbers' chairs. Yes, local barbers used to be responsible for the dental procedures that are now performed by highly trained and skilled dental professionals. During medieval times In the Middle Ages, local barbers practiced the basics of dentistry as a side benefit for their hair-cutting clients. It was an added bonus often only available to wealthy clients. Theycould go in for a shave and a haircut and get a tooth pulled, all in one sitting. There was no anesthetic in those days, other than alcohol. But once the extraction was done, toothache was gone, a great blessing. Medieval people also used tooth extraction to treat other health problems, and we know now that gum disease can indeed spread throughout the body and cause health problems which don't at first seem at all related to dental issues.
Permanent makeup lures some to needle
No one said looking good is supposed to be painless. That maxim rang especially true as Julie Wallace leaned over to tattoo the outline of Nancy Wallace's lips with ink the color of Jamaican Rum. It was quiet inside A Perfect Line Academy of Permanent Cosmetics, except for the soft hum of Wallace's permanent makeup pen. Wallace, 29, used one gloved hand to steady the lip, while the other lowered the tool's needle to blend the color in. Then she pulled back. "You've got color!" Wallace said to the patient who happened to be her mother. Cathy Klemz peered in for a closer look. "It doesn't look clowny at all," said Klemz, a permanent makeup technician and trainer. "It looks nice and very natural." The process of getting one's lips outlined typically takes as long as twohours and plenty of topical cream to numb the pain.
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