| City mulling crosswalk safety
SANDPOINT -- The City Council is taking up a diverse array of recommendations today aimed at making it safer for pedestrians to cross Fifth Avenue at Poplar Street, the scene of a fatal collision on Christmas Day. The council will discuss the recommendations during its regular business meeting at 5:30 p.m. in City Hall.The seven recommendations were forwarded to the council by the city's Pedestrian Advisory Committee, which is hunting for safety solutions for the crosswalks at Fifth and Poplar."We don't want any foolish or panic solutions. We want our city to respond quickly and judiciously for the safety of pedestrians," said Larry Blakey, the advisory committee's chairman.
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Whatever's wrong, there's a drug for you, or so TV ads say
Carolyn Mellon gets antsy when she sees drug ads on television touting "everything you can think of and things you don't," mostly because she feels the barrage of sales pitches waste her time, and even question her intelligence. "There's something for everything and something for everyone," says Mellon, 64, a real estate agent and self-professed jogging addict who lives in Buckhead. .
That's not heartache, it's a hiatal hernia
THE DIAPHRAGM is a muscular sheet that separates the chest cavity (containing the heart, lungs, esophagus and other organs) from the abdominal cavity (containing the stomach, large and small intestine, and other organs). A hiatal hernia refers to the abnormal passage of a portion of the stomach upward into the chest through a hiatus (opening) in the diaphragm. The vast majority (about 90 percent) of hiatal hernias are of the so-called "sliding" type, in which a portion of the stomach passes upward into the chest through a diaphragmatic opening that the esophagus normally passes through on its downward course to the stomach. A sliding hernia tends to move in and out of the thoracic cavity across the diaphragm, although the diaphragm itself is normal. Sliding hernias are of particular importance because they are associated with gastroesophageal reflux (the passage of acid-containing stomach contents into the esophagus).
News, tips and trends for parents
Did you ever wish someone had given you a life primer when you were in your 20s? Melissa Kirsch did, but by age 27, she hadn't been able to find such advice nicely packaged in one place. She decided she'd have to write the quintessential book.
"There was no database of accumulated experiences," said Kirsch, 32, whose new book The Girl's Guide to Everything ($15.95, Workman Publishing) will be in bookstores next month.
Kirsch started her research by asking acquaintances in their 20s, 30s and 40s what they know now that they wish they'd known right after college. The response was staggering, so she knew she was onto something.
The book has chapters on health and body image, career and work, money and finance, etiquette, dating and sex, getting along with your family, spirituality, home economics and fashion.
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