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Eminem •droll ditty about drug-addicted mother of ("I know you're probably tired of hearing 'bout my mom") is highlight of fifth straight number one album...
Agrawal's study, published in the May 25 issue of the journal Archives of Internal Medicine, is among the first to highlight the prevalence of vestibular dysfunction. It also showed that patients who have the condition but are asymptomatic - that is, with no self-reports of dizziness - are still three times more likely to fall than healthy adults. The findings suggest that screening for such conditions during regular preventive care of patients over age 50 may lead to fewer falls and, ultimately, save lives. "Patients who are aware they're at a greater risk can take steps to minimize...
...Highlight Reel: 1. On the difficulty of explaining modern life to our prehistoric ancestors: "Compared with their easygoing clannish ways, our frenetic status seeking and product hunting would look bewildering indeed. Our society would seem noisy, perplexing and maybe psychotic ... All you have to do is sit in classrooms every day for 16 years to learn counterintuitive skills, and then work and commute 50 hours a week for 40 years in tedious jobs for amoral corporations, far away from relatives and friends, without any decent child care, sense of community, political empowerment or contact with nature...
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...weekend column, Dowd sought to highlight the irony of the Republicans' holding House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's feet to the fire for not opposing Republican policies on torture aggressively enough. Interesting as this line of thinking might have been, it subsequently drowned in the backwash of controversy over her almost verbatim use of a 43-word paragraph that had already appeared in a column written by Josh Marshall on the political website Talking Points Memo. (Read about how to save your newspaper...