The circumstances surrounding a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet shot down in Ukraine on Thursday not only demonstrate the risk of flying over war-torn regions, but also show how fate can determine the victims and survivors of major disasters.
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Lui Passaglia, whose football career spanned 25 years and included three Grey Cups, all with the B.C. Lions, has revealed that he has stage 3 colon cancer.
The Canadian Cancer Society is concerned that smoking shisha in the first hookah lounge in St. John’s will hurt patrons more than if they smoked cigarettes.
News is trickling out from around the world about the 298 people killed in the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 tragedy. The victims include an internationally renowned AIDS researcher, British soccer fans and a rescue helicopter pilot from South Africa.
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“Elaine Stritch, Broadway’s Enduring Dame, Dies at 89”: Bruce Weber and Robert Berkvist of The New York Times pen an obit to the legendary entertainer, who passed away on Thursday. Related: Michael Phillips of The Chicago Tribune and Odie Henderson of RogerEbert.com also pay their respects. See also: Our content editor, Brian Tallerico, reviews this year’s excellent documentary, “Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me.”
“Plain-spoken, egalitarian, impatient with fools and foolishness, and admittedly fond of cigarettes, alcohol and late nights — she finally gave up smoking and drinking in her 60s, after learning she had diabetes, though she returned to alcohol in her 80s — Ms. Stritch might be the only actor ever to work as a bartender after starring on Broadway, and she was completely unabashed about her good-time-girl attitude. ‘I’m not a bit opposed to your mentioning in this article that Frieda Fun here has had a reputation in the theater, for the past five or six years, for drinking,’ she said to a reporter for The New York Times in 1968. ‘I drink, and I love to drink, and it’s part of my life.’ In an interview this year in The New York Times Magazine, …read more
A new device called the goTenna is designed to let users send text messages on their smartphones in places without working cellphone networks or WiFi, such as during natural disasters and at crowded events.