For anyone still doubting the food-related ambitions of First Lady Michelle Obama, the WaPo’s Jane Black wishes to disabuse you. In an article that charts the internal strategizing over how best to leverage the success of the White House Kitch…
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Octuplets’ hospital privacy fine
July 17th, 2009 |
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The hospital where octuplets were born in January has been fined for a second time for failing to protect the family’s medical privacy.
Nadya Suleman attracted worldwide attention after giving birth to eight babies at Kaiser Permanente’s Bellflower hospital in Los Angeles.
The hospital was fined $250,000 in May over staff looking at Suleman’s records inappropriately.
The new $187,500 fine is for similar breaches of the babies’ privacy.
"We have no reason to believe that anyone gave this information to anyone else or the media"
Jim Anderson
Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Hospital
The latest fine is part of an on-going investigation into the case by the the California Department of Public Health (CDPH).
Kaiser Permanente, which carried out its own investigation into the case, said 27 people had either looked at either Suleman’s or her babies’ records without authorisation.
Of these, two were fired, nine were disciplined and 16 resigned.
Jim Anderson, a spokesman for the hospital, said: "We have no reason to believe that anyone gave this information to anyone else or the media."
Dr Mark Horton, CDPH director, said: "We are very concerned with violations of patient confidentiality and their potential harm to the residents of California.
"Medical privacy is a fundamental right and a critical component of quality medical care."
Controversy
Suleman – dubbed "Octo-Mom" by the media – gave birth to six boys and two girls by Caesarean section.
She attracted criticism after it was revealed that she was unemployed, and had conceived the octuplets, along with six other children, through IVF.
She said she wanted to make up for the loneliness she felt growing up as an only child.
Suleman has signed a deal to star in a reality TV series, and will be filmed for a proposed television show by production company Eyeworks.
Her lawyer said it would be "less intrusive" than other reality shows.</p
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Rupert Grint hints at Daniel Radcliffe secretly dating Laura O’Toole
July 16th, 2009 |
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While ‘Harry Potter’ star Daniel Radcliffe has been insisting that he is single, his co-star Rupert Grint has hinted that he is secretly dating Irish actress Laura O’Toole.
Radcliffe, 19, recently said that he was not dating anyone, and it was not that he did not want to either.
“You know, I’m not really doing the [...]
Crickets – the new sound of summer
July 15th, 2009 |
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The chirp of crickets and grasshoppers is overtaking our native songbirds as the sound of the British summer
The song of the skylark may have been the essential sound of the British summer since time immemorial, but now, because of intensive farming and climate change, the little brown bird that inspired Vaughan Williams to write his Lark Ascending and any number of walkers to haul themselves up steep hills, is in danger of being drowned out by the sound of much more mundane, hardworking, leaf-munching crickets.
The skylark, says the RSPB, is is in swift decline – its numbers are down 53% in just 20 years – but at least two species of cricket are mightily expanding their range, munching their way north from the south of England to colonise the Midlands, East Anglia and beyond. In just two decades, says Bjorg Beckmann, of the UK’s Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, some species have increased numbers by up to 600%.
The skylark clearly deserves to win any competition for summer sounds; the tiny bird’s song can follow the wind and then fill the sky like a complete orchestra. But the cricket should not be dismissed. The omnivorous little scavenger feeds on any decaying plant and animal material and “sings” by rubbing its wings and legs together. That’s a pretty good trick and for anyone who goes often to the Mediterranean it can indeed conjure the sound of summer. Britain has at least 30 species of bush-cricket, grasshopper and ground-hopper (like tiny grasshoppers, but secretive and unlikely to be found by anyone other than an entomologist). Some are so rare as never to be found by anyone. But you may well hear them: that monotonous, one-pitch sound so evocative of southern England.
In 50 years’ time, perhaps, British composers will relax on their parched lawns, home-bottled sauvignon in hand, inspired by the rasping sound of a little insect. Until then, the lark is lord of the sky.
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New York Burgers: 82 Most Notable Patties
July 14th, 2009 |
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Anyone who spends time eating their way around the five boroughs of this restaurant-obsessed city knows that when it comes to food, New Yorkers are prone to all sorts of wild enthusiasms and fads. But when almost a decade ago, Daniel Boulud de…
Lions must show more bite in Joburg
July 4th, 2009 |
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Anyone doubting the physicality of modern-day rugby union must only look at the British and Irish Lions tour of South Africa as witness to the brutal demands made on players’ bodies. After last Saturday’s second Test 28-25 loss against the Springboks, four Lions ended up in hospital with three
Ones to watch
July 4th, 2009 |
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AUSTRALIA Phillip Hughes The left-hander bats with the outward appearance of a tail-ender, but strikes as sweetly as anyone – two centuries against South Africa prove it. This series will be a true test of his unorthodox technique though, with the reverse swing of Flintoff and Co. Mitchell