Monthly Archives: April 2014

Jesse Winchester : Songwriter Succumbs To Cancer

Jesse Winchester

Singer-songwriter Jesse Winchester hailed from the U.S. South, but he became known as a Canadian musician after moving to Montreal to avoid being drafted for the Vietnam War. Sadly, he passed away today (April 11) following a battle with cancer. He was 69. Winchester was originally diagnosed with the disease in 2011. At that time, he underwent surgery and continued …

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Katie Couric global anchor : Talks Gay Rights With LBJ’s Daughters

Katie Couric global anchor : Talks Gay Rights With LBJ's Daughters

The late president, a strong supporter of civil rights for African-Americans, was sympathetic to marginalized groups in general, say his daughters. It’s impossible to say how the late president Lyndon B. Johnson would feel about marriage equality — but his daughters suspect he would be for it, they told Katie Couric in a recent interview for Yahoo! News.

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Amazon Offers Workers $5,000 To Quit

Amazon Offers Workers $5,000 To Quit

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced the “Pay to Quit” program to the company’s shareholders on Thursday. Bezos said the new programs offers Amazon’s employees up to $5,000 to quit their jobs, with the goal being to make sure their employees really want to be there. “The goal is to encourage folks to take a moment and think about what they …

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Kate Bolduan : CNN anchor pregnant

Kate Bolduan : CNN anchor pregnant

“New Day” co-anchor Kate Bolduan and her husband private equity investor Michael Gershenson are expecting their first child. “You all, without probably knowing it, have put up with some pretty gnarly morning sickness,” Bolduan said. “You’ll have to deal with another baby,” John Berman said, pointing at Chris Cuomo. “I know, I’ve already got one,” Bolduan laughed while leaning on …

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Fleur De Lys Mansion Renting For $40,000 Month

Fleur De Lys Mansion Renting For $40,000 Month

The famous “Fleur de Lys” mansion in Los Angeles is now up for rent for $40,000 a month. The lease offer comes just days after it sold for an astounding $102 million, making it the most expensive sale in L.A. county’s history.

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Lab-grown body parts : Vagina Implants Cure Rare Disorder

Lab-grown parts work well in clinical trials

For the first time, researchers have successfully implanted laboratory-grown vaginas in human patients—potentially helping women avoid drawbacks from other regenerative procedures, scientists announced in a paper published today. A research team at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine, led by Dr. Anthony Atala, said in Lancet that four recipients of lab-grown reproductive organs underwent surgery between June …

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Foster Farms Chicken Salmonella Outbreak Tops 500 Cases, feds say

Foster Farms Chicken Salmonella Outbreak Tops 500 Cases, feds say

The huge and long-lasting Foster Farms chicken Salmonella outbreak has now sickened at least 524 people in 25 states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Using the multiplier of 30.3, that means that at least 15,877 people nationwide have been sickened by the poultry produced by Foster Farms.

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Squirrel blamed for $300K damage to Indiana community center

Squirrel blamed for $300K damage to Ind. building

A wayward squirrel caused about $300,000 in damage to a community center that was set to open in June in Fort Wayne, Ind. Parks Department officials say the squirrel got into the electrical equipment of the building in McMillen Park last week, causing a power surge that damaged the heating and air conditioning systems and some parts of the boiler …

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Ways to Measure Happiness

Ways to Measure Happiness

Happiness is elusive for some people. You may wonder how you can tell if you are truly happy. It is normally characterized in cartoons with birds chirping happily around your head and bands boasting upbeat tunes with general grandeur. But measuring happiness is sometimes harder in real life, where we don’t have the luxury of the theme song “Come On …

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Bus crash victims : recently engaged LA couple among dead

Bus crash victims : recently engaged LA couple among dead

A couple who had been engaged for just a few months was among those killed in the fiery crash of a bus filled with prospective college students headed to Humboldt State University. Michael Myvett had just proposed to his fiancée in Paris, France, in December, Myvett’s employer said.

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