| 15 Years of Memories
Tabloids ranged in rows over the dining room table to inspire our search. We needed the perfect box. Ideas were popping like corn, and we had no place to put them. Our tabloid collection was orderly; disorderly ideas raged through the house, ambushing us as we showered or slept. So we measured and compared newspapers, mostly alternative weeklies, from the Village Voice to Illinois Times to The Onion to the Bay Guardian. Eleven inches by 14, we decided, was the perfect size. Not too long, not too wide. Not quite the Golden Rectangle, but close enough for journalism. Ruled into columns, that box would hold all the good ideas we could imagine and borrow: Real Astrology and News of the Weird; Dock of the Bay, Bay Life and Bay Reflections; crosswords and Creature Features; feature stories that made reading fun, like this sample from Vol.
India's bias for boys worse in modern age
SINGHPURA, India - Standing in front of his small brick home, in a courtyard where the dirt has been packed down by generations of barefoot children, the mustard farmer does not bother to hide his exhaustion. "Only someone who has been through something like this can understand the size of my catastrophe," Sukhpal Singh Tomar said. For years, he has struggled to find some reason for his suffering but has come up with little. "It must be my karma," he said. The catastrophe? His daughters - all eight - so many that he sometimes stumbles over their names. But his wife, Shanti, never forgets, and the words spill from her like a breathless prayer: "Anu-Jyoti-Poonam-Roshni-Sheetal-Bindu-Chandni-Shezal." They have been born in a country leaping headfirst into the globalized world but still holding tight to a preference for boys, enlarging an ever-widening gender imbalance in the world's second-most-populous nation.
Meadowgreen school gets pediatric clinic
A school-based pediatric clinic is opening at W. P. Bate Elementary today in the wake of a successful clinic at St. Mary Community School. W. P. Bate principal Sheila Pocha says kids sometimes wait months to see specialists and inner-city doctors taking patients are hard to find. She is "elated" at the development. "We were just absolutely in great joy at having a doctor in the house," Pocha said. .
OUR VIEW: An appetite for change
SouthCoast is in the mood for change. Whether it's the economy, the struggle to keep towns running under Proposition 2½, or a general sense of political dissatisfaction trickling down from national politics, voters in many SouthCoast towns ousted their incumbents in spring elections over the last two weeks. .
Boomer Men: Looking at Gray in a New Way
As the Boomer Generation embraces its 50s and 60s, it is saying forget what tradition says about this age, we're the generation that refuses to get old. Gone are the days when approaching 60 signaled men were over the hill. Instead, the first wave of Baby Boomers is embracing this stage of life not only on the inside through exciting life experiences but also on the outside through new grooming products developed specifically for them that make them feel their best. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080416/NYWFNS1-a ) (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080416/NYWFNS1-b ) "Boomers are by no means ready to kick back and relax," says Michael Kimmel, a sociology professor at SUNY Stony Brook in New York and an expert on male boomers. "This generation is the most driven set of men and they are very dedicated to their jobs, social and family life." Boomers may still be vital, but they also hear the march of time as their hair and skin begin to age.
Dania residents: Toxic construction dust made us sick
Lueron Dixon, a retired nurse, suffers repeated skin rashes and must take breathing treatments every night to clear her lungs.
The longtime resident blames her health problems on toxic dust she says blew into her home during construction of a nearby warehouse a few years ago.
"I had nosebleed," she said. "Right now I have a lot of mucus. I cough so much at night, I've almost choked on my own mucus." Worse, she said, her brother, Eddie Fairchild, who shared her home, "right now has colon cancer, he has liver cancer; he has lung cancer. His concern is to live."
Dixon is one of almost 100 neighbors in a predominantly black community suing Lauris Boulanger Inc., which developed the Dania Distribution Centre at Dania Beach Boulevard and Southwest 12th Avenue.
‘What to Expect When You're Expecting’
Just in time for a new generation of arrivals: “What to Expect When You're Expecting," 4th edition. This cover-to-cover revision of America's pregnancy bible is bigger, better, and more invaluable than ever, giving moms- (and dads!)-to-be information they can count on and advice that works — all shared with empathy, humor and a friendlier-than-ever voice. Here's an excerpt: Your pampered pregnancy
Talk about extreme makeovers. Pregnancy is a radical full-body transformation that may have you feeling your most beautiful (you glow, girl!), your least attractive (those zits! those chin hairs!), or both (in the same day). But it's also a time when your usual beauty regimen might need a makeover, too. Before you reach into your medicine cabinet for the acne cream you've been using since junior high or head to your favorite spa for a bikini wax and a facial, you'll need to know what's a beauty do — and what's a beauty don't — when you're expecting.
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