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...crisis prompted Mayor Ray Nagin this week to issue an impassioned plea to Louisiana's Governor, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, for a centrally located crisis intervention unit, either in a reopened third floor at Charity or in a designated section of University Hospital, an L.S.U. medical school affiliate that houses the city's only trauma center and where, on one recent night, 18 of the emergency department's 23 beds were occupied by mental health patients. "These patients are still getting their medical evaluations in a routine emergency department. But then they are left there," says Cathi Fontenot, the hospital...
...Women Do" from Berlin's Third Music Box Revue of 1923. It has a quartet of burly gents punctuating a game of poker by gossiping cattily about clothes, makeup and rivals, and was put on film in the 40s revue Star Spangled Rhythm, with Fred MacMurray, Franchot Tone, Ray Milland and Lynne Overman as the feminine men. I'd like to have seen how it played, especially with the ursine Chamberlin...
...outer layers blow off in a huge flare we recognize as a supernova while the core becomes more and more compressed, eventually forming the infinitely dense node that is a black hole. In SN 2006gy, the sheer mass of the star produced so much core heat and gamma-ray radiation that it created matter and antimatter particle pairs. This blew the star to bits, leaving no cold core behind...
...Easter Sunday, when he was 3, Alvin Batiste slipped away from his family to follow a group of musicians on a parade route--a fitting start for a founder of New Orleans' modern-jazz scene. A versatile clarinetist-composer for greats from Ray Charles to Cannonball Adderley, Batiste drew national attention in the '80s as a member of the innovative band Clarinet Summit. The bebop master died of an apparent heart attack hours before he was to perform alongside Wynton Marsalis and Harry Connick...
...Ray Leone, the new head coach of the Harvard women’s soccer team, announced Wednesday that his wife, Tracey, will be joining the Crimson coaching staff as an assistant. Tracey brings a wealth of playing and coaching experience to Cambridge, having won three world championships playing with the U.S. National Team and one as a coach of the under-19 National Team. The husband-wife duo coached together most recently at Arizona State University, where they compiled a 60-45-4 record. Leone, who was named head coach in February after previous coach Erica Walsh departed for Penn...