Montreal Sex Change Clinic Attracting Patients From Around The World
- May
- 19
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Cynthia Tebbetts’s fingers fidgeted on the steering wheel during the four-hour drive from New Hampshire to Montreal.
As his blue Chevy wound its way through New England’s mountainous north last January, all he could think about was his imminent surgery in an unfamiliar, French-speaking province.
He couldn’t get there soon enough.
Tebbetts sensed the trip home to Goffstown, [...]
Stroll historic cemetery by light of moon
- April
- 21
Greenwood Cemetery, established in 1880, is the final resting place of several of Orlando’s founding families, including Joseph Bumby, Mayor Mahlon Gore, Cassius Boone (great-grandson of Daniel Boone), Mayor James Parramore, Mayor Bob Carr, Mayor William Beardall, T.G. Lee, David Mayor Braxton Beacham, Elijah Hand, Carey Hand and Joe Tinker. [...]
PODCASTThe World’s Smartest End Table, Smoking Your Phone, Document Standards Gone Wild
- April
- 11
Smoke Your Phone?
Sure, if you chop your cell phone into little pieces, roll it up and smoke it, it probably won’t be good for you.
However, one Australian neurosurgeon says your mobile phone is more dangerous than cigarettes, even if you just talk on it.
Vini Khurana reviewed several studies, as well as a number of articles [...]
TiVo Sells More, Loses Less Than Expected in Q4
- March
- 18
Red All Over
The Alviso, Calif.-based company has never had a profitable quarter, but CEO Tom Rogers assured investors in a conference call Wednesday that it would continue to narrow the gap toward profitability as it creates partnerships with cable and satellite TV providers.
Cox Communications announced Wednesday it is launching a trial in New England markets [...]
TiVo Sells More, Loses Less Than Expected in Q4
- March
- 18
Red All Over
The Alviso, Calif.-based company has never had a profitable quarter, but CEO Tom Rogers assured investors in a conference call Wednesday that it would continue to narrow the gap toward profitability as it creates partnerships with cable and satellite TV providers.
Cox Communications announced Wednesday it is launching a trial in New England markets [...]
D.C. Gun Ban’s Effectiveness Questioned
- March
- 18
WASHINGTON - On Sept. 24, 1976, one of the toughest gun laws in the nation took effect in the District of Columbia, essentially outlawing the private ownership of new handguns in a city struggling with violence.Over the next few weeks, a man with a .32-caliber pistol held up workers at a downtown federal office at [...]
Beachhouse bargains
- March
- 18
(Fortune Magazine) — Three years ago, while writing for Fortune’s sister publication Money, I embarked on what seemed like an oxymoronic (or maybe just moronic) quest: to find affordable beach houses at a time of real estate insanity. Beachfront prices were soaring, which made my mission - finding vacation getaways right on the ocean for [...]
Must-have movie: Jaws (1975)
- March
- 14
Looking back, it’s hard to imagine that anyone found the ape in the original, 1933 King Kong convincing, let alone scary. Likewise Ray Harryhausen’s jerky dinosaurs in the Sixties, or those homicidal avians in The Birds, some of which appeared to have been etched directly on to the celluloid with a black Biro.
Stephen Spielberg’s [...]
Art gallery to join Winter Park landscape
- March
- 11
“Given the current %26#091;real estate%26#093; environment, we are doing quite well,” Hoeksema said last week, noting that he had two more residential closings scheduled within the next 10 days. The commercial units have been marketed for less than a month, Hoeksema said, yet five of the most-expensive spaces sold at [...]
Kids play grow at camp
- March
- 6
Don’t think of camp as just a way to keep kids occupied during the long days of summer.
The right summer camp can accelerate a child’s development and provide lifelong skills, psychologists say.
At camp, kids get to live communally, engage in a variety of recreational activities and spend time away from home and family. [...]
