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By Ijeoma Daberechi Odoh
The current situation in Nigeria could be likened to an inferno drawing both the old and the young; the rich and the poor; and the local and the international communities to itself. Hardly a day passes in Nigeria without kidnapping incidents making the headlines. Kidnapping is now a lucrative venture with some jobless youths manning the business. No one is safe anymore.
The cupcake business is riding high at Hey Cupcake!
1600 South Congress Ave., Austin, TX 78704
Price Range: From $2.75 each
Great customer service
By Eric Heiden M.D.
Tribune Media Services
Jen had been obese, had gastric bypass surgery and lost 80 pounds. She was walking five or six times a week — about 25 miles — and had started doing marathons. Then she started lifting weights twice a week to add some resistance training to her routine to help reduce her abdominal fat and her risk for heart disease. Suddenly, she started gaining weight. Jen got stressed and stopped lifting weights. When she came in for her next checkup, exercise performance physician Max Testa, M.D., asked her, “Why did you stop lifting weights?”
By Mark Miller
Tribune Media Services
Are you a senior enraged about health care reform? If so, allow me to interrupt the ranting for a moment to alert you that, um, your check may be in the mail.
One of the new-and largely ignored-improvements in the health care reform law that benefits seniors is the closing of the notorious “doughnut hole” in Medicare prescription drug plans. But the changes will occur over a period of years, and there’s been some confusion over the first step-a $250 rebate that is being sent out to most people who fall into the hole this year.
Fall is an ideal time to clean up your garden, improve your soil and take other steps to prepare for next spring’s
Left to Right: John Dann, coach; Ricky Vasquez
married in Vietnam years after meeting in college. Courtesy photo.
By Jane Le Skaife
LANSING, MI — It was a calling for Lt. Col Theodore Whitely when he became a chaplain in the military 21 years ago.