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New research provides yet another reason to quit smoking. A scientific analysis of 6,000 men showed a propensity for those who smoked to lose their Y chromosome. That’s bad news, according to the Swedish team that conducted the trial. “If cancer, heart disease, and emphysema weren’t bad enough, male smokers […]

Generic-drug costs are soaring. In 2014, so much inflation took place it prompted members of the Senate to push for the legalization of drug imports from Canada, as patients south of the border struggle to pay for their pills. According to reports, half of all generic drugs have experienced cost […]

We do not sue them. They will run up millions in costs for just one lawsuit, regardless of the actual damages . They will conduct a scorched earth defense and try to simply wait until the plaintiff dies. They are a “no holds barred” defendant and are reported to be […]

Uber. The cell-phone-based taxi service has stirred up a fair share of controversy this year while giving traditional cabbies a run for their money. In one camp are the Uber haters. They dis the slick service for spiking prices during peak periods of demand, scold it for seeking revenge on […]

Mike McMillan was a bully. He was also a dumbo because he told me there was no Santa Claus and he was, of course, wrong. How do I know? The United States and Canadian governments acknowledge Santa Claus by tracking him every year to make sure he is safe in […]

How do you hire an excellent attorney and pay for the services in a personal injury case? Like any other professional, the hourly fee for lawyers is largely driven by market forces, but in the case of attorneys a substantial consideration is simple: how really good is the attorney at […]

If you went to bed without snow on the ground; slept soundly all night and awoke to a snow covered ground all around you, what could you reasonable say? It snowed. You did not have to actually see the activity of snow falling; your good and reasonable judgment tells you […]

Admit it, how many of us covet Converse, that classic American sneaker with a studly sense of style? Teenagers across the country aspired to own a pair of stitched-canvas, thick-laced, rubber-sole shoes synonymous with the greasers of the 1950s, nonconformists of the 1960s and hipsters of the 1970s. They were […]

Concerns are growing faster than the grass that used to cover school athletic fields across the country. That’s because more than 10,000 fields now comprise artificial turf mixed with “crumb rubber” – vulcanized tires spread across swaths of land on which baseball, football, lacrosse, soccer, softball and other sports are […]

Sometimes three red groupers are a “tangible object”, but mostly they are just, well, uh, fish. In the summer of 2007, boat owner and Captain, John Yates was leading a fishing trip on his boat, the “Miss Katie”. A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation officer stopped the boat to inspect […]