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...brought back unpleasant memories of the stressful year when my husband was without a job and I became the breadwinner (on a freelancer's unpredictable income). We lost our company-sponsored health insurance and struggled - because of my preexisting condition (a bad back) - to find insurance cheaper than COBRA. We tried to sound reassuring as we explained our new financial reality to our kids. I was suddenly up at night with a new burning sensation in my throat. My husband, the soundest of sleepers, was awake...
...Provocatively titled "Is Golf Bad for Your Hearing?" the study focused on the case of a 55-year-old man who developed tinnitus and hearing loss in his right ear after playing golf three days a week for 18 months with a thin-faced titanium driver, the King Cobra LD. After ruling out age-induced hearing loss and damage from exposure to other loud noises, the patient's doctors at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital in eastern England decided to test his golf club...
Buchanan says it is too early to call for a ban on such drivers - or for golfers to give up the new clubs they got for Christmas. (Acushnet Europe, maker of the King Cobra LD, said it was reviewing the study but declined further comment.) There have been no population studies to date, and, while golf may be a popular game among retirees suffering from age-related hearing loss, there has been no indication of increased inner-ear damage among younger, healthier players. That may be because the titanium clubs have become popular only in the past decade, and ultra...
...chat room in 2003. Their mutual interest in Second Life helped their relationship flourish, and the couple married two years later. To mark the occasion, Laura Skye married Dave Barmy, Pollard's avatar (who clearly opted for the modest lifestyle on the game, living in a chalet with a Cobra helicopter gunship parked next to it), in a lavish ceremony on Second Life. "People find love in lots of different ways," Taylor said...
...claustrophobia and surrealism that permeates Congo's jungles builds in the tense run-up to the presidential elections of June 2006. Mealer finds himself in eastern Congo waiting for the possible emergence of Commander Cobra, a mysterious militia leader in charge of 2,000 soldiers, mostly children, who are ruled through fear and black magic. Fighting between the government and Cobra has displaced tens of thousands, and Mealer teams up with a pastor whose experience of war only makes his faith burn brighter. The pastor acts as Mealer's translator through the refugee camps where people are dying from disease...