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Feb

For Families Struggling with Mental Illness, Carolyn Wolf Is a Guide in the Darkness

Label: Health

When 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...

The fine line between legitimate businesses and pyramid schemes

Label: Business

Controversy is again casting a shadow over the multilevel marketing industry, as nutritional supplement company Herbalife Inc.,...

Feb

Michelle Obama expected at Hadiya Pendleton funeral today

Label: World

First lady Michelle Obama is expected to attend Hadiya Pendleton’s funeral this morning at Greater Harvest Baptist Church in...

Michael Costigan Lands two-Year, First-Look Deal at Sony Pictures

Label: Lifestyle

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Sony Pictures Entertainment said Tuesday that it has entered into a two-year, exclusive first-look agreement with producer Michael Costigan and his company COTA Films.The deal reunites Costigan with Sony Pictures, where he previously worked for nine years and served as a production executive. Costigan then served as president of Ridley and Tony Scott‘s Scott Free Productions...

In Nigeria, Polio Vaccine Workers Are Killed by Gunmen

Label: Health

At 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...

Rosenthal: Chevrolet restores style to Impala name

Label: Business

Because a brand embedded in our subconsciousness can find a space in our garage, the Impala endures.About 16 million Chevys named for an African antelope have hit the road since 1958. And even though the one you recently returned to the airport rental lot bore little resemblance the one whose "giddy-up" the Beach Boys sang of a half-century ago,...

Feb

Blizzard packing more than 2 feet of snow reaches East Coast

Label: World

A powerful storm expected to bring driving winds and more than 2 feet of snow to the Northeast, along with the potential for...

The New Old Age: The Executor's Assistant

Label: Health

I’m serving as executor for my father’s estate, a role few of us are prepared for until we’re playing it, so I was grateful when the mail brought “The American Bar Association Guide to Wills and Estates” — the fourth edition of a handbook the A.B.A. began publishing in 1995.This is a legal universe, I’m learning, in which every step — even with a small, simple estate that owes no taxes and includes...