| Study Finds Smoking Causes Acne
Before you light up your next cigarette, a new study shows nicotine may have yet another hidden danger, especially for women. Local 12 Medical Reporter Liz Bonis explains in today's Health Alert.Not that you need another reason to quit, but this study found that smoking has been linked to serious problems with your skin. We stopped out in Western Hills today at Queen City Physicians to tell you more about this research.It is published in the British Journal of Dermatology. Scientists found women who smoke are four times more likely to develop non-inflammatory acne as non-smokers. This can cause blocked pores, large whiteheads and even small cysts. Women may be more at risk for this than guys who smoke, researchers say, because of fluctuating hormones. The nicotine makes this worse because it constricts blood vessels, and reduces the supply of oxygen to the skin which is needed for new cells.If you are having skin problems, make sure you see your own dermatologist.
Fascination with history
A life-size scene of a slave auction where a family is being torn apart is lit by red light, showing a stark contradiction from the peaceful cabin to the tragic auction block."It's disturbing," said Sharon Rapacz of Springfield on her first visit. "But I think it's realistic."Further scenes and original, rare artifacts throughout the museum show the several aspects of Lincoln's life.One life-sized scene shows pistol-wielding assassin John Wilkes Booth creeping into the theater box where Lincoln and his wife are cuddling.In another, a faux-television production studio shows news coverage of the 1860 event as if it were happening in a modern-day TV studio. It's anchored by "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert.A fast startMuseum officials estimate 1.4 million people have entered the museum since President Bush attended its opening in April 2005.Now, for Lincoln's 200th birthday next year, the museum is developing mobile displays that can travel to museums across the country.
J.D. meets J.D. as Jack Dann writes from down under about the imagined ...
I can remember gazing at the colorful covers before I could read, and as I learned to read, the collection had of course grown. The first SF novel I read was Festus Pragnell's The Green Man of Graypek, an early SF novel; and the reason I read it first was because I had been entranced by the Hannes Bok cover as a child. So the idea of genre novels and stories was in my mind from the get-go, a familiar part of the world of literature that I was exploring. The first frisson happened when I met George Zebrowski and Pamela Sargent at SUNY Binghamton, which has renamed itself Binghamton University. That was in the late '60s. George had extraordinary ambition and was determined to be a writer ... a science-fiction writer. George and I started collaborating on short stories, which we sold.
HRC shop hit with armed robber
An unidentified gunman on Jan. 18 bound and blind-folded an employee at the Human Rights Campaign’s Action Center and Store near Dupont Circle after hitting him repeatedly in the head with a pistol and forcing him to turn over money from a cash register and safe, according to a D.C. police report. Sgt. Tania Bell, supervisor of the police department’s Gay & Lesbian Liaison Unit (GLLU), which is investigating the incident, said the crime appears to be a random holdup and no evidence exists to indicate the gunman targeted the store because it is a gay business. "There’s no evidence to suggest this was a hate crime," Bell said. No other employees or customers were present at the HRC store at 1633 Connecticut Ave., N.W., at the time the gunman entered about 7 p.m., on Friday, Jan.
Sicknote crackdown will hit 30,000 in Hampshire
A Government crackdown on benefits will hit more than 30,000 claimants acorss Hampshire, it has been revealed. From October next year individuals applying for incapacity benefits will be asked to undertake a new test to establish what they are capable of doing, rather than simply having their disabilities measured, Work and Pensions Secretary Peter Hain said yesterday. The new regime, which will initially cover only new claimants, will eventually be imposed on all those receiving incapacity support. As of May this year there were more than 30,000 such people in south west Hampshire - including nearly 10,000 in Southampton. The harder test will assess claimants' abilities to perform certain work-related tasks, such as using a computer keyboard and mouse.
Review: Curvy Widow' covers scant new ground
Curvy Widow: Solo comedy. By Bobby Goldman. Performed by Cybill Shepherd. Directed by Scott Schwartz. (Through March 9. Post Street Theatre, 450 Post St., San Francisco. 90 minutes. Tickets: $50-$75. Call (415) 771-6900 or go to www.ticketmaster.com.) "Curvy Widow Seeks Playmate," the voluptuously curvy Cybill Shepherd pronounces triumphantly from her seat at a laptop as the words roll out on a screen behind her at typing speed. Fresh from the end of a six-year affair with a married man, her one romance following the death of her husband of 27 years, the 57-year-old title character in "Curvy Widow" is taking the plunge into cyberspace dating - with grit, determination, intelligence and what seems meant to be an infectious sense of humor. It isn't very funny, though not for want of trying - hard.
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