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- December 15, 2010
Medical mistakes are a leading cause of death in America. What’s changed in the last 15 years since a major study found that 100,000 patients died each year in hospitals from mistakes that were preventable?
READ MOREAnnabelle Earl is only 4 years old, and she has already turned a dream into reality. Ever since her babysitter’s daughter told her how much fun it is to be a flower girl at a wedding, she had her heart set on being one too. She confided her wish to her mom. But the only
READ MORE“In my view the July 2012 storm was in all respects at least as strong as the 1859 Carrington event. The only difference is, it missed.”
READ MOREElaine Stritch was perhaps best known to audiences today for her role as Alec Baldwin’s one-of-a kind mom in the hit TV show 30 Rock. But the legendary actress, comedienne and singer had a career that spanned decades–taking her from theater to movies to television. As Joe Dziemianowicz wrote in the NY Daily News: “She left a showbiz legacy that no one can match.” He described the legendary entertainer, who died July 17th, as “feisty, fearless and relentlessly frank.”
READ MOREIt isn’t everyday that you read such a glowing review as the one USA Today movie critic, Claudia Puig, gives to director Richard Linklater’s Boyhood. She describes it this way: “One of the most extraordinary films in decades, this family drama is also one of the most ambitious in scope, having taken more than a decade to shoot.” Puig goes on to call Boyhood “an epic masterpiece.”
READ MORENick Bilton, a columnist and reporter for The New York Times began thinking about how much time he was devoting each day to social media. He writes that what started out as “exciting and novel” began to take over his life and “consume every hour of my day.” So he asked himself: “At the end of the day, what do I have to show for it? Am I more enriched as a human being after a couple of hours spent on Facebook? More fulfilled from Pinterest? A deeper person from Instagram?”
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