Last week we looked at the history of cancer treatment from ancient times to modern day. We saw how surgery has played the key role in curing cancer if it is detected before it starts…
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Clear skies and a sunny summer sun can coexist for only so long here in North Carolina. Temperatures rise. Pressures escalate. Opposing fronts assemble, square off, collide. Things quickly become precipitatious, as they recently did…
(From O’Shaughnessy’s News Service) — In mid-August Dale Gieringer, the longtime director of California NORML, invited some 15 pro-cannabis colleagues to a zoom meeting to discuss what had been dubbed “the YMCA Problem” – as…
Most tools spend far more time in the toolbox than in the hands of the craftsman. Likewise, most musical instruments are silent not sounding, seen (or hidden in their cases) not heard. This relationship between…
The West Coast and the East Coast of the United States are distinctly different animals and a five and a half hour plane ride is all that separates the two. Last week my husband Bob…
Northern California sports fans just had a memorable year cheering on the hometown boys, though we'll probably forget all about it if the glory years continue. First it was the Giants last fall beating out…
Great strides have been made in recent years in the treatment of many cancers. For most tumors, the best chance of cure remains early detection and surgical removal prior to the tumor spreading. This includes…
For about three years in the late 1970s my brother Hugh was an administrative law judge for the state’s Social Services Department, a “Welfare Hearing Officer.” His job basically entailed driving around northern California’s rural…
ABC ran a special Sept. 22 honoring Norman Lear age 100. He has all his marbles and is full of life. His friend, Rita Moreno, also looked great. She chided him for not hiring her…