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Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Fear You're Losing Your Marbles? Try These Memory Tricks

By Lisa Mulcahy You can't find your glasses (they're on your head), you forgot the morning staff meeting (it was an hour ago), and the kids are safely at school (but their lunches are still on the kitchen counter). Oh well, when you're crazy-busy, exhausted, or valiantly multitasking from morning... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, October 7, 2007

Mellencamp Song About 'Jena Six' Upsets Mayor

John Mellencamp says he is telling a story, not reporting. "The town of Jena has for months been mischaracterized in the media and portrayed as the epicenter of hatred, racism and a place where justice is denied," Jena Mayor Murphy R. McMillin wrote in a statement on town letterhead faxed on Friday... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, October 5, 2007

Carol Ann Gotbaum, 45, dies in custody September 28 at Phoenix airport

PHOENIX, Arizona (CNN) -- Noah Gotbaum told a Phoenix airport operator that his wife was distraught after being bumped from a flight and that her situation was a "medical emergency," not a case of "some lout who's just drank too much." Video shows Carol Ann Gotbaum being arrested at a Phoenix... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Five years After Killings, Sniper Calls Victim's Daughter

Tuesday, October 02, 2007 McLEAN, Va. — Cheryll Witz was in the Costco in Tucson, Ariz., shopping for a birthday cake when her cell phone rang. Waiting to speak to her was one of the nation's most notorious serial killers — the man who five years ago had killed her father. "I need to apologize for... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 1, 2007

New Supreme Court Term to Test Conservatives on the Issues

Monday, October 01, 2007 WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is set to begin a term that could lead to enhanced rights for terrorism detainees, a ruling against part of a child pornography law and shorter prison terms for crack cocaine dealers. Whatever happened to the court's march to the right? The... Sign in to see full entry.

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