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...Thus far your trek has raised $4.1 million to support terminally ill patients who want to die at home. Why did you choose that specific cause? Six years ago, my wife of 36 years, my mother and one of my sisters all died of cancer within 18 months of each other. I got to spend time in cancer clinics and spoke with women who weren't being visited and didn't want to be dying in a hospital. They wanted to be dying in their own room, with their pets and their photographs. We need many more at-home nurses...
...push new-car demand toward more fuel-efficient vehicles just as the U.S. market for cars improves and auto production ramps back up. That would both stimulate the market for new cars and help curb our self-defeating addiction to buying oceans of oil from countries that wish us ill. It would be unpopular, of course, but many responsible things are. Revenues from such a gas tax might also help Obama stop being so, well, irresponsible about how to pay for his "new era of responsibility." (See pictures of Republican memorabilia...
...city's first outbreak of swine flu occurred about a month ago, when more than 1,000 teenagers at a Catholic high school in Queens began falling ill following the return of several students from vacations in Mexico, the epicenter of the outbreak...
...Most of all, you'll see guys. Lots and lots of guys, in ill-striped shirts, in ill-fitting pants and with ill-considered caps on their balding heads. To combat this mass of masculinity on the nation's golf courses, a growing Las Vegas-based company called Play Golf Designs has started a fairway-beautification project. Founded by Nisha Sadekar, a former LPGA prospect, Play Golf Designs offers a simple service. For a substantial fee, one of the company's roster of beautiful female professional golfers will play a round or two with you and your co-workers...
...LPGA, no surprise, has a different spin. "Any characterization of Lorena Ochoa other than her being an ideal model of what makes the LPGA great is ill-informed," says David Higdon, the LPGA's communications chief. Does Higdon find the website and the Play Golf Designs concept in any way offensive? "We haven't had a chance to evaluate the site and what it's really being used for," he says...