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By Dr. Daneen Skube
Tribune Media Services
Q. I work with a guy who has lost a lot of weight and now is constantly running down “disgusting fat people.” In every conversation, he brings up his healthy food choices and criticizes fat people. I’m overweight and starting to dread going to work. My co-worker brings up the topic at every chance (even in front of clients). My husband says this is harassment. What can I do?
While tonsillectomy was almost routine 30-40 years ago, new guidelines limit the criteria for such surgery.
By Sue Hubbard, M.D.
www.kidsdr.com
If there’s one thing I know after looking down thousands of throats during my pediatric career, tonsils come in many shapes and sizes.
Tonsillar tissue is considered a “secondary lymphoid organ” and is most active in children between the ages of 4 and10. As youngsters go through puberty, the tonsils begin to shrink. As I like to say, “some things get bigger, while tonsils get smaller,” and by adulthood, the tonsils are so small that they can be difficult to see.
By Mark Miller
Tribune Media Services
The new health-care reform law aims to cover nearly all Americans and to get our exploding national health-care tab under control. But reform also calls for some upfront investment, and someone needs to foot the bill. Wealthy retirees-it’s time to grab your wallets.
By Youth Services Specialist Lynn H.
In May the American Library Association celebrated an initiative called “Choose Privacy Week.” With the constant advances in technology, there are more opportunities than ever for people to connect to information, services, and others-but also more opportunities for breaches and abuses of personal privacy.
Last month, SUBWAY restaurants in Lansing, Jackson and Hillsdale collected more than 13,000 pounds of canned good and other non perishable food items during a one-day “Feed a Friend” food drive event.
For both men and women of any age, cardiovascular disease could be the first
killer. It kills more people than ALL forms of cancer tumors grouped
together.
Left to right: GLAR Committee members Kim Whitcomb, Pete Holoway, Wendy Mackey and Beth Graham with Denny Shell (second on left)
By Amanda Oboza
and TNCP Staff
LANSING, MI — On Saturday April 30, children mostly from Lansing’s Walnut Neighborhood located on the Northside, starting gearing up for summer in a big way: they received a bike and helmet.
By William O. Beeman
The United States is jubilant over the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. However, it will be some time before history catches up with the mythology that arose around him and the al-Qaeda organization in the past 10 years. Osama bin Laden at the end was far from the looming powerful figure he was made out to be. He had outlived his usefulness both as a bogeyman for the West, and as an Islamic responder to the neo-colonialist forces his organization purported to confront.
Motz-Swatches “Nature Puff” is a part of the imaginative and inspiring “re:Dress – Sustainable Fashion Design” exhibit at the Michigan State University Museum.
Photos courtesy of MSU Department of Art and Art History
E. LANSING, MI – Michigan State University Apparel and Textile Design students routinely design gowns and garments as class projects. Now they are getting an opportunity to design a whole exhibit built round this creative fashion flourish with “re:Dress – Sustainable Fashion Design” at the Michigan State University Museum.
Studio: TriStar Pictures
Plot: Two very different families converge on Martha’s Vineyard for a wedding.
Cast: Angela Bassett, Paula Patton, Laz Alonso, Loretta Devine, Meagan Good, Romeo Miller, DeRay Davis, Valarie Pettiford, Mike Epps
Rating: PG-13
Bottom Line: ****
By Samantha Ofole-Prince
In “Jumping the Broom,” which is directed by Salim Akil (“The Game”), Paula Patton plays Sabrina Watson, a corporate lawyer who gets hitched to a Wall Street broker, Jason Taylor (Laz Alonso), after dating for six-months.