“Treatment is not a prerequisite to surviving addiction.” This bold statement opens the treatment chapter in a helpful new book, “Now What? An Insider’s Guide to Addiction and Recovery,” by William Cope Moyers, a man who nonetheless needed “four intense treatment experiences over five years” before he broke free of alcohol and drugs.As the son of Judith and Bill Moyers, successful parents who watched...
Media Decoder Blog: NPR Campaign Seeks the Quirky Listener
Labels: BusinessAre you a sky diving algebra teacher? A Sudoku-playing barista? NPR has a new ad campaign aimed at you.The pilot campaign, in four cities, is intended to bring new listeners to local public radio stations, and in turn NPR’s national programs, by matching a show to even the quirkiest interests.The three-month campaign, financed with a $750,000 grant from the Ford Foundation and developed by Baltimore...
Feb
10
Notre Dame 104, Louisville 101: Notre Dame Outlasts Louisville in Five Overtimes
Labels: WorldSOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Notre Dame watched a video of great boxing knockouts knowing their game against Louisville would probably be bruising. It turned out to be the longest game in Big East regular-season history. “I talked about it being a 15-rounder and taking punches and being put on the mat,” Notre Dame Coach Mike Brey said. “At the fourth or fifth timeout I said, `Has there...
Mardi Gras ball 1st Superdome event since blackout
Labels: LifestyleNEW ORLEANS (AP) — This time, the lights stayed on in the Superdome.The glitzy Mardi Gras Krewe of Endymion rolled its parade and super float through the Superdome on Saturday night and Kelly Clarkson performed amid purple, green and gold lights in the first major event at the venue since the Super Bowl blackout.While the black tie ball was nowhere near the size of the championship game a week ago,...
For Families Struggling with Mental Illness, Carolyn Wolf Is a Guide in the Darkness
Labels: HealthWhen a life starts to unravel, where do you turn for help? Melissa Klump began to slip in the eighth grade. She couldn’t focus in class, and in a moment of despair she swallowed 60 ibuprofen tablets. She was smart, pretty and ill: depression, attention deficit disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, either bipolar disorder or borderline personality disorder. In her 20s, after a more...
Boeing 787 Completes Test Flight
Labels: BusinessA Boeing 787 test plane flew for more than two hours on Saturday to gather information about the problems with the batteries that led to a worldwide grounding of the new jets more than three weeks ago. The flight was the first since the Federal Aviation Administration gave Boeing permission on Thursday to conduct in-flight tests. Federal investigators and the company are trying to determine...
Feb
09
Storm’s Heavy Snow and High Winds Lash at the Northeast
Labels: WorldA ferocious storm system pummeled the Northeast for a second day on Saturday, bringing high winds, deep snow, and leaving more than 600,000 homes and businesses without power, mostly in New England. After a day of pelting wet snow, five states — New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island — had declared states of emergency, and Massachusetts had banned vehicles from...
Kiefer Sutherland honored by Harvard theater group
Labels: LifestyleCAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Golden Globe-winning actor Keifer Sutherland has been awarded the pudding pot after being honored as Man of the Year by Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals.The roast for the actor took place despite a massive snowstorm hitting the Boston area. The Friday evening event, including presentation of the traditional pudding pot, was moved to the Charles Hotel in Cambridge.The 46-year-old...
In Nigeria, Polio Vaccine Workers Are Killed by Gunmen
Labels: HealthAt least nine polio immunization workers were shot to death in northern Nigeria on Friday by gunmen who attacked two clinics, officials said. The killings, with eerie echoes of attacks that killed nine female polio workers in Pakistan in December, represented another serious setback for the global effort to eradicate polio. Most of the victims were women and were shot in the back of...
John E. Karlin, 1918-2013: John E. Karlin, Who Led the Way to All-Digit Dialing, Dies at 94
Labels: BusinessCourtesy of Alcatel-Lucent USAJohn E. Karlin, a researcher at Bell Labs, studied ways to make the telephone easier to use. A generation ago, when the poetry of PEnnsylvania and BUtterfield was about to give way to telephone numbers in unpoetic strings, a critical question arose: Would people be able to remember all seven digits long enough to dial them? And when, not long afterward, the dial...
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