27 Aug

Animal acupuncture gives pets renewed hope for active lifestyle

Everything old is new again, especially in the world of veterinary medicine. Acupuncture is becoming increasingly popular among the most progressive of pet owners as a great option for controlling pets? pain and treating a variety of ailments.
Certified Veterinary Acupuncturist Felicity Talbot, DVM, treats dogs and cats with acupuncture, as well as physical therapy, at [...]

27 Aug

Survey Says Better Choices for Pets a Priority

While pet owners might be pinching pennies in their everyday lives, a recent survey has found that they remain committed to maintaining their cat or dog’s quality of life, according to a recent survey.
Making better choices for the well-being of pets is a priority, according to the June 2008 survey, conducted on behalf of The [...]

27 Aug

Nine-Minute Road Trip

Road trips allow us to mope, celebrate, ponder and even spend a few hours not thinking about anything, save for a nondescript succession of signs and lines. But all of that takes time, and time on the road takes gas money. For those in search of catharsis on a budget, Stephen Thompson has compiled a [...]

27 Aug

Students on trip suffer food poisoning

At least 40 Kendriya Vidyalaya students from Kerala, who had come here to attend a social science fest, were admitted to the Government General hospital on Wednesday with symptoms of nausea, giddiness, fever and fatigue.
While most of them were discharged as outpatients, eight of them had to be administered intravenous fluids for extreme dehydration.
Doctors said [...]

21 Aug

Economy key during Obama’s Virginia trip

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama began a two-day Virginia campaign swing Tuesday in a community with the state’s highest unemployment rate, telling a Martinsville audience that he will take aggressive steps to improve the plight of economically-distressed communities that are reeling from plant closings and layoffs.
“I’m not saying that every job is going to come [...]

20 Aug

Franken to make quick trip to Denver

National conventions are often used to cast a spotlight on a party’s up-and-comers, and even off-hour slots are fought over.
But noticeable by his absence from the Democratic podium next week in Denver will be Minnesota U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken, who is not expected to be among the featured speakers.
Franken, a comedian known nationally for [...]

19 Aug

Girardi Girds Yankees for an Uphill Trip

The last of the reporters were filing out of his office Sunday afternoon when Yankees Manager Joe Girardi spun out of his chair and approached a bookshelf behind him. He reached for a blue binder on the shelf that contained scouting reports.
That quickly, Girardi had put aside the Yankees’ first series victory in almost a [...]

02 Aug

Rice meets Chinese FM on Bush’s trip to Olympics

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Chinese counterpart held talks Monday on President George W. Bush’s trip to the Olympics in Beijing and international issues, the State Department said.
Rice met with Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi at her office in the afternoon before a working dinner, officials said.
They “discussed the president’s upcoming trip to [...]

30 Jul

Obama’s trip has dealt him new cards to play at home

I don’t want to feed into that ridiculous rightwing narrative about Obama thinking he’s the messiah. He’s a politician. He happens to have special talents, to which some people respond passionately. Others don’t. But that’s their problem. The Beatles didn’t order millions of teenage girls to scream, and Obama did not put pixie dust in [...]

29 Jul

Amy Winehouse Taken to E.R. After Rx Reaction

The troubled chanteuse was rushed to a London hospital Monday night after suffering an adverse reaction to medication, E! News has confirmed.
“Please be advised that Amy Winehouse suffered a reaction to medication at home this evening and was taken to the hospital,” the singer’s rep, Tracey Miller, said. “Doctors have advised that she will be [...]