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...Greek tragedian Sophocles placed his mythical protagonist Oedipus in Thebes, and later Colonus, but never in Florida. However, modern playwright and actress Maureen Angelos—member of 16-year old theater group the Five Lesbian Brothers and co-author of the play “Oedipus at Palm Springs”—doesn’t give a damn about Sophocles. According to Angelos, her goal is “dismantling the patriarchy one show at a time.” Angelos, accompanied by the rest of the Five Lesbian Brothers, and Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver?...
...this summer, a large pilot program involving hundreds of human patients got under way at the Alzheimer's Community Care agency in West Palm Beach, Florida. The maker of the RFID chips used in the program, VeriChip Corporation, a subsidiary of the Delray Beach-based Applied Digital Solutions, is funding the initiative and wants to market its tags to the roughly 45 million high-risk patients in the U.S. with diseases such as Alzheimer's, diabetes, cancer and heart disease. The company says these patients can benefit from having instant and accurate access to medical records, which the chip would...
...Mexico. Over the next two years, VeriChip and Alzheimer's Community Care plans to inject 110 patients with dementia or Alzheimer's with the chip as well. But VeriChip came under fire in September - shortly after the first 90 or so Alzheimer's patients received its chips in Florida - after an AP report unearthed studies suggesting the chips may cause cancer in laboratory animals. Within two weeks of the AP report, VeriChip's stock plummeted from just under $6 a share to a low of $3.50, a company spokesman says...
News of the tumor studies haven't yet dissuaded other groups, including Alzheimer's Community Care and the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), from encouraging the use of RFID microchips. Given the large number of Alzheimer's patients in South Florida and the potential for natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods, the VeriChip comes in handy, says Mary Barnes, president and CEO of Alzheimer's Community Care, because, unlike a medical medallion, it cannot be taken off or lost. "In Palm Beach County and South Florida, we have projected over 200,000 Alzheimer's patients," Barnes says. "When...
...that's exactly what I feel like telling DeGeneres and her dog adoption agency this week. I report on Florida and Latin America. The former has one of the worst child welfare agencies in the nation; the latter is a region where most kids wish they lived as well as Brussels Griffon terriers do in this country. So yes, it concerns me when I realize that we handle the adoption of animals with more care and love than we manage the placement of abused children in foster homes; or that people like Leona Helmsley leave millions to pets in their...