Sunday, June 10, 2012
Poppy Chic - NYTimes.com - Maureen Dowd - I FLEW down to Houston last year to have lunch with George Herbert Walker Bush. “Did you come because you think I’m going to die?” he asked me with a wry smile. Not at all, I replied, adding that I wanted to join him on his planned sky-diving excursion when he turned 90. (It sends the world a message, as he puts it, that “old guys can still do exciting things.”)
Braves honor Bream, Cabrera on “Sid Slid” Bobblehead Day | AJC Braves - Former Braves catcher Javy Lopez said recently in his book “Behind the Plate” that Cabrera had told Lopez in the bullpen that night he was going to win the game. He’d had only 11 at-bats for the Braves all year. “I said, ‘I’ve got to do something so people know me,’ and it happened,” Cabrera said Saturday. “I said, ‘Watch me. They’re going to pinch hit me and I’m going to get a hit, and we’re going to win this thing.’”
Saturday, June 09, 2012
10 shocking medical mistakes - CNN.com - "Mistakes are happening every day in every hospital in the country that we're just not catching," says Dr. Albert Wu, an internist at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Medical errors kill more than a quarter million people every year in the United States and injure millions. Add them all up and "you have probably the third leading cause of death" in the country, says Dr. Peter Pronovost, an anesthesiologist and critical care physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Obama’s data advantage - Lois Romano - POLITICO.com - The depth and breadth of the Obama campaign’s 2012 digital operation — from data mining to online organizing — reaches so far beyond anything politics has ever seen, experts maintain, that it could impact the outcome of a close presidential election. It makes the president’s much-heralded 2008 social media juggernaut — which raised half billion dollars and revolutionized politics — look like cavemen with stone tablets.
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