Life And Death During The Great DepressionDiane Swanbrow
On September 1st, we ran a story about the health benefits of a good recession. And we received several incredulous responses. Some listeners firmly believe that people eat and drink and smoke more when their finances are bleak. Now along comes another study of life and death during the grand...
1723, in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. His exact birthdate is undocumented, but he was raised by his mother, Margaret Douglas, after the death of his father, Adam Smith. He attended the University of Glasgow at the age of 13 and attended Balliol College at Oxford University, where he studied Europe...
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in...
He was hungry and his clothes were ragged and he didn't have a job. He didn't think things were picking up. " 'I'm going to keep going,' I said. 'Someday I will be able to face people I used to beg for food.' If I didn't have hope I would have starved to death by th...
Hardly can we forget the time when our society faced the threat from the life-and death disease— SARS. Yet, even during those dreadful times, some suffering people remained optimistic. Instead of wearing white masks, some people turned to color1ful ones, and thus displayed a happy mood. A...
After blowing away audiences around the world, BLOOD & FLESH: THE REEL LIFE & GHASTLY DEATH OF AL ADAMSON will be arriving on home video in the UK on June 1st. Produced and directed by Severin co-foun
Taggedlife and death during pandemic2020,Mary Rahalski Lyboult,schlumbergera truncata America is… So fellow travelers, this will not be a “zen moment” haiku post…. and for my readers who live outside the maelstrom of the United States, bear with me as I speak directly to my fellow Ame...
When I was a practicing medical librarian, I read an extraordinary work of medical humanities journalism bySheri Fink, MD:Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital. Dr. Fink won a Pulitzer Prize for her initial coverage of the disaster that played out in a New Orle...
Also, it’s natural to feel negative emotions at particular crisis points in our lives, i.e., loss of a job, end of a relationship, death of a loved one, etc. If this is the case, you must allow yourself to experience the emotions, and seek help if necessary. We’re also not ...