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October 10, 2009
Health Notes for Oct. 10
CLASSES Yoga Anatomy for the Upper Body, 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. today, Glenmore Yoga and Wellness Center, 10442 Ridgefield Parkway, to learn which postures...
2009 swine flu not the same as 1976 swine flu
Q:I was in the military in 1976 when we were required to get a swine-flu vaccine. But now I hear that there is a new swine-flu vaccine. If I was vaccinated...
Going kosher can challenge winemakers in Israel
RAMOT NAFTALI, Israel—For six years, Yitzhak Cohen has supervised the grape harvest as Druze and Thai workers carefully separate the clusters from...
Great Smokies endure less interest, lack of funding
CHARLOTTE, N.C.—Having just celebrated its 75th birthday, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park finds its future threatened by wavering public...
The overshadowed East Room has nearly seen it all
In a building with more than 130 rooms, none is as big and flexible as this one—at nearly 80 feet long and 40 feet wide, it’s almost the size...
Tough roller-derby girls knocked out by recession
RALEIGH, N.C.—There are some pretty horrific images in the Carolina Rollergirls’ online injury archive: the purple-black bruise on Kristi Kreme’s...
Schools scratching penmanship as a necessary skill
CHARLESTON, W.Va.—Charleston resident Kelli Davis was in for a surprise when her daughter brought home some routine paperwork at the start of school...
October 07, 2009
H1N1, or swine-flu, vaccine arrives in Virginia
A limited quantity of swine-flu vaccine has arrived at some local health departments and hospitals in Virginia. “We have received some at John Randolph...
October 03, 2009
In Jerusalem, some Arabs migrate to Jewish areas
JERUSALEM—Yousef Majlaton moved into the Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Zeev for such comforts as proper running water and regular garbage pickup....
Politicians are loath to tell us about sacrifices
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Reversing climate change will create green jobs, tax cuts spur the economy, and everybody wins when everybody is covered by health...
Combat robots offered as battlefield lifesavers
FORT HOOD, Texas—Under a searing sun, some of the nation’s best defense geeks tried to impress the infantrymen and tankers of the U.S. Army....
Reader’s Digest stays upbeat despite trouble signs
NEW YORK—Nothing, it seems—not even a filing for bankruptcy protection—can dim the sunny optimism of Reader’s Digest, a magazine...
Planning for end-of-life care can let patients decide
CHICAGO—By the time Dr. Michael Preodor brought up the do-not-resuscitate question, he could have predicted how Gloria Hayes would answer. Hayes,...
Navigating Egypt’s bureaucracy with a child in tow
CAIRO—After hours of pushing through sweltering crowds at office windows, I was on the verge of registering my newborn son. Then the woman behind...
Senator’s death in duel prefaced Civil War carnage
WASHINGTON—Nearly two years before the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter, simmering hostilities over slavery erupted on a “field of honor”...
Cancer drug from Cuba undergoes rare U.S. trial
MIAMI—For the first time since Fidel Castro took power in Cuba more than a half-century ago, a drug developed by the communist regime is going through...
So over 3,000 years, we only got healthier recently?
PHILADELPHIA—Health care as we know it didn’t exist 3,000 years ago. But along the Georgia coast, the Pacific Northwest and coastal Brazil,...
Cuba’s sniffer dogs track crooks—and dissidents
MIAMI—A Cuban police dog sniffs a murder weapon and is then set to sniff six bottles holding the scents of suspects, just some of the thousands of...
For Obamas’ getaways, Camp David beats Chicago
WASHINGTON—Why hasn’t President Barack Obama kept his pledge to make Chicago’s South Side his “Kennebunkport”? Two words:...
Navy training, rare whales a divisive mix off Fla.
MIAMI—Florida isn’t known for whale watching, but every winter the coastline offers a haven for endangered North Atlantic right whales. They...
