“Regular Guy” Sandy Koufax Honored with Dodger Stadium Statue
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Sandy Koufax, the best left-handed pitcher in major league baseball’s modern era, is a fanatically private man. He has been described as reclusive, guarded, withdrawn behind a wall of amiability. Those descriptions come from the small circle who know him well. In the summer of 1966, his mother, Evelyn, found out Koufax was publishing an […]
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Toxic Inhalation from Burn Pits Echoes 9/11 Issues
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Smoke inhalation injuries can be silent killers. The symptoms may not be immediately visible or obvious. The impact of inhalation can take years to manifest itself. The 9/11 cataclysm taught us how hard it is to predict the long-term effects of toxic inhalation. The World Trade Center plume exposed approximately 500,000 people — firefighters, police, […]
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Death in the Onion Field: Sixty Years Later
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It was a routine traffic stop that plainclothes officers Ian Campbell and Karl Hettinger did not need to make. The officers were playing a hunch, a daily occurrence in law enforcement. It was a hunch that was about to go lethally wrong. Parked in an unmarked Plymouth near the corner of Gower Street and Carlos […]
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How Eating Late at Night May Impact Your Weight and Your Health
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“Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.” This quote from Adelle Davis has echoed like a nutritional mantra for the last sixty-eight years. Simply stated, full of common sense, Davis crafted the e=mc2 of her industry. Except she was not talking about the size of the meals. Davis, […]
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How Dogs and Cats Protect Your Health
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In 2022, it’s getting harder and harder to find an issue on which Americans completely agree. Political and social divisions today are deep and festering. There is, however, one matter that draws the country together in unprecedented numbers. America is a nation of pet lovers. Several surveys, including one conducted by the highly regarded American Pet […]
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