At a party the other night, a fund-raiser for a literary magazine, I found myself in conversation with a well-known author whose work I greatly admire. I use the term “conversation” loosely. I couldn’t hear a word he said. But worse, the effort I was making to hear was using up so much brain power that I completely forgot the titles of his books.A senior moment? Maybe. (I’m 65.) But for me, it’s complicated...
California tomato farmer gets 6 years in prison for price-fixing
Label: Business A man who built one of California’s most successful food companies was sentenced to six years in prison for scheming to inflate...
Feb
11
Dorner could face death penalty as criminal charges filed
Label: World As a massive manhunt for Christopher Jordan Dorner continued Monday afternoon, prosecutors with the Riverside County district...
'Identity Thief' grabs $34.6M to debut at No. 1
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy's "Identity Thief" has made off with the weekend box-office title with a $34.6 million debut.The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Hollywood.com are:1....
Personal Health: Getting the Right Addiction Treatment
Label: Health“Treatment is not a prerequisite to surviving addiction.” This bold statement opens the treatment chapter in a helpful new book, “Now What? An Insider’s Guide to Addiction and Recovery,” by William Cope Moyers, a man who nonetheless needed “four intense treatment experiences over five years” before he broke free of alcohol and drugs.As the son of Judith and Bill Moyers, successful parents who watched...
Tax help comes with health insurance advice
Label: Business Derrick Bean filed his income taxes at an H&R Block office in Los Angeles this month, and the 26-year-old left with something...
Feb
10
Ambitious makeover planned for old housing project
Label: World Denise Penegar puts a little extra effort into the teenage girls, the ones who've dropped out of high school to care for their...
The Black Keys, Skrillex share early Grammys lead
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys is not such a lonely boy after all.The singer-guitarist took the early lead at the Grammy Awards, picking up three trophies and assisting with a fourth during the pre-telecast show. Auerbach won producer of the year alone and best rock song for "Lonely Boy" and rock album for "El Camino" with his bandmate Patrick Carney, joining electronic dance music...
For Families Struggling with Mental Illness, Carolyn Wolf Is a Guide in the Darkness
Label: HealthWhen a life starts to unravel, where do you turn for help? Melissa Klump began to slip in the eighth grade. She couldn’t focus in class, and in a moment of despair she swallowed 60 ibuprofen tablets. She was smart, pretty and ill: depression, attention deficit disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, either bipolar disorder or borderline personality disorder. In her 20s, after a more...
Apple developing wristwatch device that runs on iOS, reports say
Label: Business The cycle of speculation that Apple plans to build some kind of wristwatch or other wearable computing device kicked into high...
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