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What do Michelle Obama and Captain Beefheart have in common?

During  her August 2008 speech at the Democratic National Convention, Michelle Obama shared her experiences with multiple sclerosis (MS): Mrs. Obama’s father was diagnosed with the disease when he was in his early thirties.  Last week rock legend Captain Beefheart, 69, died after struggling with MS for many years. As Mrs. Obama said in her [...]

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American Splendor Author Harvey Pekar To Undergo Autopsy in Cleveland

Harvey was one of the most compassionate and empathetic human beings I’ve ever met.

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Barbara Walters Opens Up Her Heart on “The View”

Veteran TV reporter and The View c0-host, Barbara Walters, made a surprise announcement today on The View.  The 80 year-old TV personality told viewers that she will be undergoing heart valve surgery later this week. Walters said that she was to have heart valve replacement to repair a heart valve that had become  “tighter and [...]

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Reclusive legend J.D. Salinger expires

Legendary author, Jerome David Salinger died yesterday of natural causes in his home in Cornish, New Hampshire were he lived in self-exile for decades. Mr. Salinger was 91. His most famous novel, The Catcher in the Rye, was required reading in high school English courses for generations of students. Natural causes is a frequently given [...]

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Our most surreal story: The incongruous juxtaposition of Magritte and Bonanza

Dr. B and I are just wrapping up a week in Brussels and today we toured an art museum devoted exclusively to the great Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte (1989-1967). Among the things we learned was that, early in his career, he did commercial advertising work, creating film posters and covers for musical scores, to support [...]

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“Wrap Artist” Jeanne-Claude Has Died

Artist Jeanne-Claude, who along with her husband Christo, created the 2005 Central Park installation “The Gates” and other large scale “wrapping” projects around the globe has died at age 74. Her family reports that she died from complications of a brain aneurysm (otherwise known as a cerebral aneurysm). What is a Cerebral Aneurysm? A cerebral [...]

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