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  • Ryder makes low-key gym comeback away from prying eyes following bar assault

    New Zealand cricketer Jesse Ryder has reportedly made a comeback to the gym, days after he was attacked outside a Christchurch bar that left him in a coma for two days, although he is keeping the process very low key. According to Stuff.co.nz, Ryder has been seen coming and going from Exodus gym in Wellington, although sources said that he is careful to keep himself from working out too hard, ...

  • Women gymgoers filthier than men

    The funky smell at your gym could be because most people tend to wear their workout gear a few times before washing, according to a new poll. The new survey finds that most people wash their clothes only after every third workout. Women are the worst offenders, the survey said, with just 21 percent washing their gym clothes after each and every workout, the New York Daily News reported. A ...

  • Understanding the new health reform tax credit

    It sounds simple on the surface, but there is much to know about the new tax credit that will help up to 193,000 San Diego County residents pay for health insurance, starting on Jan. 1, ...

  • Sport on TV Not-so-fast Eddie sets a blistering pace in the Cape

    Eddie Izzard may be a brilliant stand-up comedian but he would have required extra powers of fortitude to stay on his feet after his latest endurance test. Three years ago he ran 43 marathons in 43 days around the UK in aid of Sport Relief, despite having no pedigree at long-distance running. It was an astonishing undertaking, but no undertaker was ...

  • How State Governments Raise Costs And Rip Hundreds Of Billions Off The Federal Government Using Health Insurance Premium Taxes

    WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 12: Former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-WY) (L) and former White House Chief of Staff under the Clinton Administration Erskine Bowles (R), both co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, have endorsed eliminating state-based provider taxes, one of the ways in which states manipulate federal health-care spending. (Image credit: Getty Images via ...

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The Kid Stays in the Picture

The Kid Stays in the Picture

The title of The Kid Stays in the Picture, Brett Morgen and Nanette Bursteins portrait of Hollywood legend Robert Evans life, comes from the mouth of another Hollywood legend, the great producer/studio mogul Darryl F. Zanuck. Zanuck had personally selected Evans to play a role in the 1957 screen version of Ernest Hemingways The Sun Also Rises. The rest of the cast disapproved of his ... ...

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  • Five Quick and Important Facts On Health Insurance Through Obamacare

    How will you pay for health care? (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) The year is flying by and beginning in 2014, you'll be required to have health insurance coverage. There is still significant confusion on how insurance will be bought and sold, and how much it will cost. In this post, I discuss five quick facts you need to know to prepare for the health insurance ...

  • Syria opposition says kidnapped bishops in good health

    In this undated combo picture released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Bishop Boulos Yazigi of the Greek Orthodox Church, left, and John Ibrahim of the Assyrian Orthodox Church, right, who were kidnapped Monday, in the northern province of Aleppo, Syria. (AP ...

  • Unions Obama Differ on Health Plan

    Labor unions that have solidly backed President Obama are splitting with him over ObamaCare -- with one calling for the "repeal or complete reform" of the president's signature health-care law. Union leaders argue insurance costs for millions of workers will increase under the president's health-care plan so they might have to drop their existing plan, despite Obama ...

  • Health coverage could require bank account debit or credit cards

    Americans shopping for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act next year might hit an unexpected obstacle: If they don't have a bank account, they might not be able to receive ...

  • In California Gardening for Mental Health

    The garden, on the scraggly outskirts of town, is one of seven in Fresno created for immigrants, refugees and residents of impoverished neighborhoods with mental health money from the state. At the Slavic Community Garden, Ukrainian refugees persecuted for their religious beliefs in the Soviet Union now grow black currants for jam, dill for pickles and soups, and medicinal calendula flowers from ...

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