His five favorite songs are “Gallows Pole” (Led Zeppelin), “Immigrant Song” (Led Zeppelin) “Trucking” (Grateful Dead), “For Whom the Bell Tolls” (Metallica), and “A Country Boy Can Survive” (Hank Williams, Jr.).
Inspiration can strike any place — or at any age. Of the 81 inventions that rocked the 20th century (based on Encyclopaedia Brittanica‘s list of 325 inventions that had profound effects on human life), seven were the brainchildren of Americans age 50 or older working solo. Here’s why it pays to keep plugging away. MUZAK, 1922 George Owen Squier (1863-1934)
Throughout the 2008 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton has studiously avoided discussing her five-and-a-half-year tenure as a director of Walmart, the world’s largest retailer. Clinton, who served on the Walmart board from November 1986 to May 1992, while she was first lady of Arkansas, makes no mention of the experience in speeches, nor is it listed in her official biography
Americans for Limited Government, the tax-exempt organization that bankrolled a series of controversial ballot initiatives this year, raised 99 percent of its $5.4 million in total contributions in 2005 from just three donors, the Center for Public Integrity has learned. The number of ALG’s major donors in 2005, but not their identities, was disclosed in financial statements obtained by
Americans for Limited Government, the Chicago-based tax-exempt organization that bankrolled a series of controversial ballot initiatives this year, has apparently been forced to move out of Illinois because it could not comply with the state’s charity laws, the Center for Public Integrity has learned. Americans for Limited Government had operated from offices in Illinois since 2002, but just after
A Chicago-based tax-exempt organization that has been bankrolling takings initiatives in more than a half-dozen Western states — including all five with measures on the ballot this November 7 — continued to dispense millions of dollars even after its authority to do business had been revoked by Illinois authorities. The tax-exempt organization, Americans for Limited Government, Inc., has given
When American corporations come up against inconvenient science, say, a study showing that mercury in fish can damage a developing fetus, or that a blockbuster drug has nasty side effects, they call in the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH). Industry-funded ACSH is the most aggressive debunker of pesky research reports emanating from government and academia.
At one time or another nearly everyone has taken diphenhydramine (dye-fen-HYE-dra-meen), an antihistamine that can have a sedating effect on the central nervous system. Millions of people take it for dust, pollen, and other allergies; others for nausea, vomiting, or vertigo; some for Parkinson’s disease. And untold millions use it as a sleep aid. Best known under the brand
Should I Start Taking a Statin?
By Dr. Armon B. Neel, Jr. Q. My doctor wants me to start taking a statin drug and has prescribed Lipitor. I am a 79-year-old male and, according to the doctor, in great shape for my age. (Every morning I ride my bicycle to the church gym, where I walk two miles on the track.) I don’t take any medications
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