, the veteran coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, told reporters yesterday that his team should have room to hire a couple of free agents next season. And when he was asked about who might be on his list, he mentioned the Raptors' rising star . It was almost certainly not a case of official NBA tampering, but Jackson's comments caused the Raptors' front office to snap to attention.
Being ...
She collects them. Not actual, living, breathing penguins, of course, but anything and everything related to the frosty fowl, from figurines to Christmas ornaments to hand soap dispensers I don’t like to be alone with, particularly in the bathroom.
My wife has penguin socks, penguin pajamas, penguin slippers, comforters, sheets and pillowcases. I keep my pear shape and black suit ju...
Alpizar's brother-in-law, Steven Buechner, said Alpizar was a native of Costa Rica, and met his sister, Anne, when she was an exchange student there. Relatives said the couple had been married about 22 years.
Brad Jentsch of another brother-in-law, told WITI-TV of Milwaukee that Alpizar lived for about a year in Milwaukee, his wife's hometown.
"He was a very warm and loving husban...
Some AIDS and HIV patients who owe $500 to $1,000 to the state are slated to be dropped from a program that helps them buy prescription drugs and keep their private health insurance.
After delaying action for two months at the request of patient advocates, the Minnesota Department of Human Services reiterated last month that it had legal authority to deny services to HIV Program recipient...
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Iraqis are not the only folks these days being served B.S. disguised as steak. In fact I have some real news for the Iraqis - you folks ain't seen nothin' yet! Just wait until things settle down there enough for the Madison Ave. crowd to set up shop.
If Iraqis want...
Neighbors expressed bewilderment Wednesday that a man they knew as an easygoing suburban homeowner had been shot and killed by a federal air marshal after dashing off a jetliner and claiming to have a bomb in his backpack.
"He was a nice guy, always smiling, always talkative," Louis Gunther said. "Everybody is talking about a guy I know nothing about."
Rigoberto Alpizar, 44, was gun...
From Positive Living • By Paul Kidd • 8 December, 2005 - 8:08am
While researching the story on adherence in this issue, PL collected a swag of hints, tips, and handy suggestions for maximising adherence to HIV medications. The suggestions on this page are drawn from fact sheets, research and the lives of positive people across Australia.
Know your drugs. Ask your doctor, phar...It's one of those telling signs, one of those sad little cultural punches that make you cringe and sigh even as you stifle a laugh and roll your eyes at the state of it all, as you read about how an increasing percentage of people -- mostly women but half of the men, too -- aren't receiving their proper dosage of medicine when given a shot in the rear by a nurse at the hospital because, well,...
SOUTH TOLEDO -- The Toledo Zoo had a tough announcement to make Tuesday. One of the zoo's most popular animals had to be euthanized after his battle with heart disease worsened. 29-year-old "Akbar," one of the zoo's silverback gorillas, died over the weekend, leaving a hole in the zoo's Great Apes exhibit.
Akbar, a male western lowland silverback gorilla, had become a fixture ...
his letter is in response to the editorial cartoon [apparently from the Boston Herald] in last week’s TAB. It shows a gluttonous state legislator about to carve up the turkey labeled “budget surplus” while a sad taxpayer peers through the window. The cartoon reminded me of one I saw in the Boston Herald when I was a kid in the 1950’s: WELFARE was eating up a map of the U...
