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Penn State sex scandal engulfing revered Joe Paterno

Penn State sex scandal engulfing revered Joe Paterno

HARRISBURG, Pa. – Joe Paterno, major college football’s oldest, winningest and perhaps most revered coach, was engulfed Monday in a growing furor over the alleged cover-up of a sex abuse scandal at Penn State. The Pennsylvania state police commissioner said Paterno fulfilled his legal requirement when he relayed to university administrators that a graduate assistant [...]

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The fight of Richard Rainwater’s life

The fight of Richard Rainwater’s life

The renowned dealmaker built a fortune using little besides his wits. Now he’s funding a crash program to stop the disease that’s destroying his mind. FORTUNE — In March 2009, Dr. Bruce Miller, head of the Memory and Aging Center at the University of California’s medical school in San Francisco, received a call from a doctor in new York City, [...]

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Q&A: Candidates for San Francisco district attorney

Q&A: Candidates for San Francisco district attorney

KALW News and SF Public Press  — Oct 25 2011 – 12:01pm Audio of the interview Second interview is with David Onek One of the more important and most overlooked races going on in San Francisco right now is the campaign to be the city’s next district attorney. When Kamala Harris left the post for [...]

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An excerpt from “The Secret Lives of Wives”

An excerpt from “The Secret Lives of Wives”

(CBS News)  I am settling into my seat on a Southwest flight en route from Cleveland to Baltimore, and as I’m buckling up I notice that Dennis Kucinich is in the row in front of me. the Democratic congressman and 2008 presidential candidate from Ohio, if you can’t picture him, is short, in his mid- [...]

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America’s anomaly: The place where war is a constant

America’s anomaly: The place where war is a constant

STORY HIGHLIGHTS Soldiers from Fort Drum, New York, have deployed to Afghanistan since 2001 Fort Drum is intertwined with communities around it, different than many military bases Even locals with no direct military connection say they have felt war’s constant impact A new polls suggests that in most American communities, the connection to the war [...]

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Meet Kim Stagliano, Author of All I Can Handle, I’m No Mother Teresa

From the outside, some may view Kim Stagliano’s life raising three daughters with autism as completely overwhelming, full of despair and unimaginable.  I can tell you from reading her memoir, or “Kimoir” as she fondly calls it, her view is remarkably different. In her book, All I can Handle, I’m no Mother Teresa, (with a [...]

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November 3, 2010

“All I can Handle. I’m No Mother Teresa” Today, rather than shamelessly hawking my own “stuff”, I’ve chosen to promote the work of one of autism’s well-known advocates, Kim Stagliano. Kim and her husband are parents to three daughters on the autism spectrum (frankly, I’m impressed by any couple outnumbered by their children, and the [...]

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