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The economy and us
The economic sky might be falling, but here I am at Starbucks in Koreatown fretting over the death of the cafe. Really. Last Sunday's New York Times had a story about the decline of traditional cafes and bars in France -- there were 200,000 in 1960 and...Tags: New York Times, Starbucks Corporation, Koreatown, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Dining and Drinking
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Ways to relieve stress
While not every stress reduction technique suits everyone, any incremental change -- a little more exercise, a little more sleep, a little deep breathing and a few more nights out with friends -- will help.
Get moving
Evolution has conditioned us to...Tags: Physical Exercise, Physical Fitness, Society, Colleges and Universities, Health and Safety at School
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Facing the 'truth' about Facebook
Special to The Baltimore SunMy life is an open Facebook. Facebook is an online social networking utility. For those who insist on talking to folks in person, you are probably wondering why you need an online social networking utility. I wondered the same thing. Most days I am...Tags: Family, Facebook
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Many aided 'Wars of Steel' exhibit
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I thank the following who made our ''Wars of Steel'' exhibit at the Westgate Mall a success: Susan Vitez, our Steelworkers Archives cooridnator; ''Jolly Joe'' Timmer; Lee Weidner of the Heller Homestead; Lenny Szy of the...Tags: Allentown
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A quarter-century marriage to a man behind bars
The summer after her first year of law school, Pamela Dowden dug a red calico sundress out of her closet and left her apartment in Sacramento. It was a hot, shadeless morning. She drove her orange Datsun pickup out of town as Phoebe Snow sang a wistful...Tags: Philosophy, Prisons, Carlos Castaneda, First Data Corporation, Billiards, Snooker and Pool
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Rutgers tries to expand role of women in sciences
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) _ Of the 62 faculty members in the math department at Rutgers University's New Brunswick flagship campus, only two are women. New Jersey's biggest state university is using a $634,000 grant from the National Science Foundation...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Technology
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Facebook generation puts off reunions
Of The Morning CallTonight, when Saucon Valley High School's Class of 1998 gets together for its 10th reunion, most of its members will be doing something else, somewhere else. Just 32 graduates out of 165 – barely 20 percent – signed up to catch up over beers and all-you-...Tags: MySpace, Jonathan Miller, Ronald Reagan, Thanksgiving, Wind Gap
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A Golden Edition Of 'Kind Of Blue'
Columbia/Legacy's splendid "Kind of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition" is so lovingly stocked with priceless artifacts and constructed with such painstaking reverence that it's more like a sacred object than a luxury box set. With its magical...Tags: Amazon.com Inc., John Coltrane, Music Industry, Radio Industry, John Scofield
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Patients conduct drug trials online
The Boston GlobeWhen Italian researchers published a small study in February saying that lithium, a medication used to treat bipolar disorder, appeared to slow the progression of Lou Gehrig's disease, others with the devastating neurodegenerative disorder began to try it...Tags: Titusville, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Organizations, Bipolar Disorder, Google Inc.
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More older users dipping toes into social networking
For years, there was no faster way to get updates on childhood friends than to have my mom visit the grocery store, where she inevitably would bump into parents of school classmates. Their conversations often produced ironclad intelligence on everyone's...Tags: MySpace, Networking, Family, Contracts, Facebook
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High-tech haggle
Haggling - it's not just for flea markets anymore.
"My wife thinks I am nuts, as I view retail prices as list [prices] that are quite negotiable," says Richard Hughen, vice president for sales and marketing at CSA Medical Inc., a Baltimore-based...Tags: Consumers, Sales, Prices, Marketing, Society
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Wrong time to trim city police budget
The editorial "Budget woes" (Nov. 17) briefly discusses the efforts of the Dixon administration to weigh in on the city's projected budget deficit, describes the city police and fire departments as "budget-busting" agencies and suggests that the city...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Law Enforcement, Society
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