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...Other writers have also limned the First Lady. There are at least three admiring biographies (Michelle Obama: An American Story by David Colbert; Michelle Obama: First Lady of Hope by Elizabeth Lightfoot; and Political Profiles: Michelle Obama by Jeff C. Young). There is also a volume of letters, Go, Tell Michelle: African American Women Write to the New First Lady. At least two more books are in the works, one about her style, and one about the First Spouse and the "cultural moment." A Michelle Obama coloring book has just arrived in stores, and a comic book...
...been removed,” she said, calling the Lamont Library instance an “unfortunate mistake.” Martin said that students could return the recalled bars to any of HUDS’ retail dining locations, where they would be refunded for purchase price. David S. Rosenthal, the director of University Health Services, said he was “surprised and disappointed” that HUDS had missed some of the recalled items. “People need to be cautious about eating peanut products at the present time,” he said. According to Rosenthal...
...advances the mental health community has made in recent decades, including pharmacological treatment, the biggest factors influencing suicides rates seems far beyond its reach. "Suicide rates appear to be quite strongly associated with broad sweeping cultural trends rather than more minor things such as a treatment," notes retired Colonel David Litts, who played a key role in reducing suicide within the Air Force by 60% in five years. (The overstretched Army, by contrast, is still experiencing historically high rates.) "So in the face of this economic turmoil perhaps the most important thing we can do is relieve the financial strains...
...word of God is on the move in London - literally. Beginning Feb. 9, three separate Christian groups will launch advertisements on more than 200 of London's buses to convince pedestrians of God's existence. "It may be unpopular and unpleasant," says David Larlham, assistant general secretary of London's Trinitarian Bible Society, a group that distributes Bibles worldwide. "But there is a whole lot of truth in the Bible that people need to get to grips with." His organization has paid $50,000 to display posters on 125 of London's red double-decker buses that quote Psalm...
...Army sent him all over the world, including tours in Japan and Iraq. General David Petraeus, who served as Mellinger's boss during the draftee's final three months in Iraq in 2007, calls him "a national asset" who kept the top generals' aware of the peaks and valleys in battlefield morale. "We lost count of how many times his personal convoy was hit," Petraeus says. "Yet he never stopped driving the roads, walking patrols, and going on missions with our troopers." (Mellinger's 33-month Iraq tour was punctuated by 27 roadside bombings, including two that destroyed his vehicle...