Catherine Zeta-Jones (41) was hospitalized for five days at the Silver Hill Hospital, Connecticut, last week and treated for bipolar disorder II. With bipolar disorder II the individual experiences depression and one or more episodes of hypomania. But no severe mania, which occurs in bipolar disorder I. Hypomania is less severe than mania, but similar. […]
The serial killer who dumped his victim’s bodies in the thick brush along several miles of New York’s breathtaking beachfront may have dismembered several of them – law enforcement authorities have told ABC News. The grisly twist was the latest revelation as police continued to uncover the murderous path carved along Long Island beaches by […]
Fifty years ago today, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to experience outer space. Beforehand, he wrote a poignant letter to his wife, telling her to remarry if he didn’t survive. But his last conversation before liftoff, according to secret recordings only now released by Russia, was decidedly less sentimental, peppered with swears […]
Albert Pujols’s recent appearance on 60 Minutes did a fine job of illuminating, among other things, just how frequently every team in Major League Baseball passed up on the best player of the last 10 years – 12 times or more, generally speaking. For those of you who haven’t been reveling in the St. Louis […]
Dayne Barron can still recall the lanky photojournalist from the Topeka Capital-Journal newspaper dropping in at his childhood home in Topeka, Kan. “He came over to our house as part of a series on homemakers and their favorite recipes” – said Barron, now manager of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s Medford District. “I remember […]
I am revolted by the religious and political bigotry at work in this country. An example of this is the Republican-proposed provision in the House budget that would deny federal money to Planned Parenthood. It was recently tacked on to legislation that was approved almost six weeks ago. Proponents hoped that Democrats would sign off […]
The dark shadow of a government shutdown is hanging over Capitol Hill and congressional offices are planning for the worst – like what to do with the more than one million government-issued BlackBerry cell phones. Memos are starting to go out informing staffers if they are ‘essential’ or not, and rumors of collection bins for […]
Beck put a press release on his website yesterday announcing his split with Fox: “I truly believe that America owes a lot to Roger Ailes and FOX News. I cannot repay Roger for the lessons I’ve learned and will continue to learn from him and I look forward to starting this new phase of our […]
It looks as if (for one man at least) space is far from the final frontier. Richard Branson has turned his attention to the seas, and is planning to take a mini submarine to the deepest point of each of the world’s five oceans. It’s the first time anyone’s atttempted to do this, and Branson […]
One-time Manowar drummer Scott Columbus has died at the age of 54. So far, no cause for this tragedy has been made public. Columbus was with the band from 1983 to 1991. He returned four years later, but finally left in 2008. Columbus has recently been working on a new project called Instrumetal. Last year […]