In a 2005 article in the Village Voice entitled “Capitalizing on the Flu,” James Ridgeway predicted that a “flu pandemic would spark enough fear to make it a greed pandemic.
Even though health experts are cautiously optimistic that the international panic over swine flu appears to be on the verge of abating, sending the bug slithering into ailment oblivion, my H1N1 alarm clock has just started ringing.
We are writing to underscore our support for the Civic Center Joint Use Project and to emphasize the unique opportunity it represents for our community.
Life sometimes comes at you so fast that even stopping to take a deep breath seems like an impossibility. When this happens on a long-term basis, the body goes into stress mode — a state of high alert.
As your friendly neighborhood columnist, it occasionally falls to me to call people out when they’ve done wrong. I don’t always like it, but I have to do it.
The first 100 days of “hopey-changeyness” was front-loaded by an “enchanted” N.Y. Times/Obama-media shill from the White House press corp. During the Teleprompter-in-Chief’s first 100 days, affirmative action press conference, he was questioned with all the rigors of a beauty pageant queen unless, o
This is the year a woman will win the Indianapolis 500. If the sport is lucky, that is. Coming up May 24, this year’s Indy 500, which will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first purpose-built race track in the world, already has three female entrants, the large
Antonio Stradivari’s career spanned seven decades and his workshop produced almost 1,200 violas, guitars, cellos and violins. About 650 of his exquisite instruments exist today.
I get accused of hating women — a lot. I understand it. I take a hard line with women. I expect them to be honest and fair and upright and most importantly, forthright.
It was an eerie scene at Aztec Stadium in Mexico City, as teams America and Tecos played in a nearly empty stadium. Normally, the 100,000-seat facility, one of the largest in the world, would have been packed with soccer enthusiasts.
There are 23 citizen boards, commissions and task forces recognized by the city of Santa Monica. Citizen members of these organizations are City Council appointed or approved.
I read the other day that IBM plans on having a computer compete against human contestants on the TV show, “Jeopardy!” The claim is that if the computer beats people, it will be a big leap forward in the field of artificial intelligence.
