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...sitting in front of my TV, at home, for the sixth consecutive hour, watching “The Wire.” Bubbles, one of the show’s most engaging characters, was a lifelong crack addict until his mid-40s, when a harrowing experience inspires him to slowly and painfully turn his life around and become clean. As he finds a steady job and reconnects with his kin, I could not help but express my happiness to my entire uninterested family, who could not understand why I was spending my entire break watching this crushingly depressing show...
Marcia C. Hamilton, 62, a lifelong resident of Cambridge, names herself as one of those disgruntled individuals. A barbed wire fence separates the yards of her home and, as she calls Fastman’s abode, the “purple house.” Since last spring, when the two chickens and three ducks were first brought into a constructed coop in the adjacent yard, Hamilton said she has been distracted by the unpleasant odors and loud noises that accompanied the birds’ daily habits...
Repeated blows to the head, which are routine in football, can have lifelong repercussions. A study commissioned by the NFL found that ex-pro players over age 50 were five times as likely as the national population to receive a memory-related-disease diagnosis. Players 30 to 49 were 19 times as likely to be debilitated. Of the dozen brains of CTE victims McKee has examined, 10 were from either linemen or linebackers; some scientists now fear that the thousands of lower-impact, or "subconcussive," blows these players receive, even if they don't result in documented concussions...
...really don't want to make a decision right now" - that they have written off Favre as a prima donna who has teased and toyed with the league's press and fans to a point where he's no longer worth discussing. But as a Wisconsin native and lifelong Green Bay Packers fan who has watched or followed every single Favre start, who has more than once become caught up in the popular hometown debates as to whether Favre is a traitor to the team he led to two Super Bowls, I was taken aback by the identity crisis...
Hepatitis B is transmitted through blood or bodily fluids - spread through unprotected sex, blood transfusions, sharing of needles or contaminated tattoo or acupuncture instruments. Hepatitis C spreads only through infected blood. Patients with hepatitis B typically fight off the virus on their own, after which they retain lifelong immunity to the disease; however, about 6% to 10% of adults and children over five who are infected go on to develop chronic disease. (The numbers are much higher for younger children and infants who contract the virus.) Hepatitis C is more often a chronic infection, with a minority of patients experiencing...