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Reflections, aspirations as Mother's Day approaches
My mom died in 2006. She had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood, just 10 months earlier. Many times since, I’ve wanted to call her. Sometimes I’ve wanted to ask her mundane, culinary questions — to clarify a...Tags: Music, The Herald-Mail, Mother's Day, Entertainment
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Olympic gold medal gymnast Shawn Johnson on running, fitness and weight gain
Olympic gold medal gymnast and Dancing with the Stars champion Shawn Johnson admits she has never been a runner. Ever. But once she retired from competition, Johnson made a fitness bucket list and wrote down crazy running-related goals like “half-...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Awards and Prizes, Human Interest, Lymphoma
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For better or worse, coach and GM tied together
Bears general manager Phil Emery and new head coach Marc Trestman celebrate birthdays just a day apart from one another. That's one of the nifty — dare we say synergetic? — connections between the two men. Sadly, they weren't born in late...
Tags: Sports, Football, San Diego Chargers, Kansas City Chiefs, Mike Mulligan
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The importance of dignity, on land and at sea
My late father used to say that no quality of human life was more important than dignity. That wisdom came to mind the other night when I sat with my wife watching CNN as the exhausted passengers finally began debarking from the cruise ship Carnival...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Religion and Belief, Festive Events, Crime, Law and Justice, Entertainment
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Can a new pope save the Catholic Church?
It's been a busy week. The Senate voted 78-22 to renew the Violence Against Women Act. Christopher Dorner, ex-cop turned cop killer, was finally tracked down near Big Bear, Calif. Leaders of the International Olympic Committee voted to drop wrestling from...
Tags: Dan Brown , The Pope, International Olympic Committee, Religion and Belief, Barack Obama
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Digest: Covie Stanwick leads BC to 17-8 rout of Holy Cross
Women's college lacrosse Stanwick leads BC to rout of Holy Cross Covie Stanwick (Notre Dame Prep) set career highs with six goals and three assists to lead No. 18 Boston College (1-0) to a 17-8 victory over host Holy Cross (1-1). Brooke Blue and...Tags: Sports, Soccer, UMass Minutemen, Brenda Frese, Track and Field
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Susan Love, doctor/patient
And now, she is the patient. For decades, as a surgeon, researcher, professor and medical celebrity of sorts, Susan Love has led the charge against breast cancer and for women's health. She served on President Clinton's cancer advisory board. She set up a...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Planned Parenthood, Research, Entertainment Events, Flu
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With mementoes of her late dad close by, Uhlaender wins world title in skeleton
The last time she had raced in a World Skeleton Championships at Lake Placid, N.Y., back in 2009, Katie Uhlaender was mourning the death two weeks earlier of her father, Ted, the former major league outfielder who had urged her to keep competing even as...Tags: Katie Uhlaender, Sports, FIFA World Cup, 2012 Summer Olympics, Awards and Prizes
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Pa. wild deer with CWD necessitate a second DMA
The Pennsylvania Game Commission has established a second Disease Management Area (DMA) to monitor confirmed cases of Chronic Waste Disease (CWD) in wild deer in south-central Pennsylvania. The new four-county DMA includes parts of Bedford, Blair,...Tags: Sports, Travel, Canoeing and Kayaking, Lymphoma, Ceremonies
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Arians most qualified man to be next Bears coach
Nobody truly knows precisely what Bears general manager Phil Emery thinks after interviewing 13 known coaching candidates, not even Jimmy Johnson. Nobody expects Emery to go all Jodie Foster on us anytime soon and reveal his innermost thoughts by...
Tags: Sports, Seattle Seahawks, San Diego Chargers, Football, Bill Belichick
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Digest: Ex-Terp Jessie Hicks named as an ACC Legend
Maryland basketball Jessie Hicks named one of 13 ACC Legends Former Maryland player Jessie Hicks has been selected as the Terps' Atlantic Coast Conference Legend honoree. She will be recognized at the ACC tournament in Greensboro, N.C., March 7-10....Tags: Laurel Park, Basketball, Florida State Seminoles, Folklore and Mythology, Boston College Eagles
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Kass: Moutza of the Month — now with preferential treatment
Big Jim Thompson and the U.S. Bureau of Prisons insist there was no "preferential treatment" for formerly imprisoned former Gov. George Ryan. But we're all about preferential treatment here today. You're a former governor, Big Jim, and a former...
Tags: Government, Elections, Politics, Oxygen (tv network), Barack Obama
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