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“Renowned Dermatologist, Dr. Usha Sood Graces the Pages of The Leading ... - YAHOO!” plus 3 more

“Renowned Dermatologist, Dr. Usha Sood Graces the Pages of The Leading ... - YAHOO!” plus 3 more

Renowned Dermatologist, Dr. Usha Sood Graces the Pages of The Leading ... - YAHOO!

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 06:21 AM PST

L V B buzzed up: Minority births on track to outnumber white births (AP)

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Guinness brewer's faith provides inspiration for Nashville author - Nashville Tennessean

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 06:21 AM PST

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The Guinness family took that challenge seriously, Mansfield said. They paid their workers more than other brewers. Their company offered generous benefits — often sending employees' children to private schools, and having doctors, dentists and a masseuse on staff.

"Guinness never put Scriptures on their cans of beer or bottles; they never preached through their product. They just did what they did well," Mansfield said. "They took care of their people, and they put millions of dollars into pulling people out of poverty."

Baptists shun alcohol

Praising a beer company for its Christian values can sound out of place here in the South. The Southern Baptist Convention, for example, stresses abstinence from alcohol for church members.

Baptists have been wary of alcohol since at least the 1820s, said Greg Wills, a professor of church history at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. Wills said before that time drunkenness, but not necessarily drinking, was considered a sin.

As alcohol abuse became widespread in the 1800s, Baptists and other evangelical groups started to push for temperance, or moderation in drinking, and then for abstinence.

"They saw alcohol as the chief source of social ills like murder, violence and domestic abuse," he said. "It was a public welfare issue."

Other denominations, such as the Methodists, also pushed for abstinence, and later Prohibition, to address social ills. K. Austin Kerr, a retired history professor at Ohio State University who studied the temperance movement, said that Prohibition actually worked. Alcohol-related diseases and crimes such as domestic abuse went down during Prohibition, which lasted from 1920 to 1933.

"As a social welfare policy, it was a success," he said.

Some retailers resist

The book has met some resistance from Christian retailers. Nashville-based LifeWay Christian Resources, owned by the Southern Baptist Convention, for example, does not stock the book.

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Children's National Medical Center Official Slams D.C. EMS Over 2-Year ... - EMS

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 06:35 AM PST

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    • WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As the investigation into the death of Stephanie Stephens continues, a top official at Children's National Medical Center has made his views about the case known. In a letter to the editor in The Washington Post, Dr. Joseph Wright said, "The decision not to immediately transport a 2-year-old with respiratory symptoms is inexcusable."

    Dr. Wright is referring the crew from Medic 33 who did not take the little girl to the hospital after her mother's first call to 911 on the morning of February 10. It wasn't until another 911 call, about 9-hours later, that a different crew from Medic 33 took the girl to Children's. She died the next day. The family told 9NEWS NOW Stephanie had pneumonia.

    Dr. Wright, a senior vice president, pediatric emergency physician and director of EMS at the hospital, pointed out in his letter that he believes the city has made little progress since the controversy surrounding the inadequate care provided to dying former New York Times reporter David Rosenbaum. Wright wrote to the Post, "It was only a matter of time before a pediatric Rosenbaum case surfaced."

    According to Dr. Wright's biography, he is a founding director of the hospital's Institute for Prehospital Pediatrics and Emergency Research and "provides state-level leadership as the EMS Medical Director for Pediatrics within the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems". Wright is also a senior investigator and medical director with "the federally-funded Emergency Medical Services for Children National Resource Center."

    DC Fire & EMS Department spokesman Pete Piringer disputes Dr. Wright's claims. In an email to 9NEWS NOW Piringer said, "During the past few years significant progress has been made in many areas concerning the state of EMS in the District of Columbia."

    Piringer points to the implementation of the large majority of the goals from the task force ordered by Mayor Adrian Fenty to provide a blueprint for the future of EMS following Rosenbaum's death in 2006. According to Piringer, "As of today, the Department has completed 39 of those 50 action items, most well ahead of schedule, and is making substantial progress on completing the remaining 11 items."

    Chief Dennis Rubin headed the the task force. Rubin is about to celebrate his third anniversary as head of the DC Fire & EMS Department. Critics, like Kenneth Lyons, president of the union representing civilian EMS workers, point out that Chief Rubin is now in search of his third medical director and is on his fourth set of people to lead EMS training. Lyons calls the lack of continuity "schizophrenic".

    While Lyons believes Dr. Wright is premature in judging the EMS crew in the Stephens case, he concurs with Wright's claims there are problems in providing pre-hospital care to children. In his letter Wright said, "I have stated often for the public record before the D.C. Council Committee on Public Safety and the Judiciary just how little attention D.C. Fire and EMS has paid to preparing its workforce in the care of children."

    Lyons tells 9NEWS NOW that Dr. Wright has long been an advocate for improved training and protocols in dealing with children who are ill or injured and has offered to assist the city in making these improvements.

    The public relations staff at Children's National Medical Center was unable to schedule an interview with Dr. Wright on Tuesday.

    Republished with permission of WUSA-TV.

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    George F. Will - Newsweek

    Posted: 10 Mar 2010 06:43 AM PST

    Few news columnists are as erudite, opinionated, controversial and widely read as Pulitzer Prize-winning writer George F. Will. A Newsweek Contributing Editor since 1976, Will produces a back page column addressing diverse topics from politics to baseball.

    Will's newspaper column appears twice weekly in 480 newspapers and has been syndicated nationally by The Washington Post Writers Group since 1974. He writes occasionally for The London Daily Telegraph. He also is a television news analyst for Capital Cities/ABC News Television Group, and became a founding member of the panel of ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley" in 1981.

    In addition to his 1977 Pulitzer for commentary for his newspaper columns, Will was named the best writer on any subject in a 1985 readers' poll conducted by The Washington Journalism Review. He has earned many awards for his Newsweek columns. In 1979, he was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for essays and criticism. He won the 1978 National Headliner Award for consistently outstanding feature columns, and the 1980 and 1991 Silurian Award for editorial writing. Women in Communications awarded him First Place/Interpretive Column in the 1991 Clarion Awards competition.

    In November 1992, Will published a book of political theory entitled "Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and The Recovery of Deliberative Democracy." His book "Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and At Home," was published in 1990 by The Free Press. Three other collections of columns from Newsweek and The Washington Post have been published: "The Pursuit of Happiness and Other Sobering Thoughts" (Harper & Row, 1978); "The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions" (Simon & Schuster, 1982), and "The Morning After: American Success and Excesses/1981-1986" (The Free Press, 1986).

    "Statecraft as Soulcraft: What Government Does" (Simon & Schuster, 1983) was originally the Godkin Lecture at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in 1981. "The New Season: A Spectator's Guide to the 1988 Election" was published in 1987 (Simon & Schuster). In 1990, "Men At Work: The Craft of Baseball," (Macmillan) became a bestseller.

    Will was born in Champaign, Illinois in 1941, and educated at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut; Magdalene College, Oxford University, and at Princeton, where he received an M.A. and Ph.D. in politics. He has taught political philosophy at Michigan University and at the University of Toronto. For three years, Will served on the staff of the United States Senate for Gordon Allott (Republican, Colorado, from 1970-72). From 1973 through 1976, he was Washington editor of The National Review magazine. Will lives and works in the Washington, D.C. area.

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