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Researchers from Stanford and the University of Toronto have found that receiving a traffic ticket reduces a driver’s risk of dying in a crash by 35 percent. From the June 28th edition of “Lancet”

A once-a-day pill for everyone over 55 could undo some of the ill-effects of our sedentary, high-cholesterol, western lifestyle and slash the rate of strokes and heart attacks by more than 80%, doctors said yesterday.

Airline pilots aren’t the only ones clamoring to carry guns to work. Front-line teachers, increasingly in the line of fire, are arming themselves, where else but in that cauldron of urban violence, “Salt Lake City”.

Yesterday I took a break from Blogging to remind myself that there is a "Real
World" out there somewhere. Bobbing
on the Atlantic off Nahant at dawn
after the delicious, elusive "stripers", baking in the bleachers
of Fenway
watching Pedro pitch an afternoon start against the hapless Tigres,
and mooning over Marta Gomez latin jazz at the Regatta Bar, I overdosed on
reality (and sun) and have hastily retreated to my air-conditioned corner of
cyberspace….