Sightings

As long as you had family, you had people who would make sure that you got fed one way or another. Family was about canning peaches, and canning peaches was about making sure that there'd at least be something come next November, when it was cold outside and there were no more crops coming in. Family is the heart of what it's about more »

Blacks and Hispanics are more upbeat than whites. The young are more optimistic than middle-aged and older Americans. And Democrats are more upbeat than Republicans, even though Democrats have lower incomes and less wealth and have suffered more recession-related job losses. more »

... doubts about what treatments are in the best interests of the patient, uncertainty about treatment choices that are based on religious or cultural imperatives, the extent to which non-medical facts and circumstances impact a decision to offer organ transplant for a particular patient, whether a patient is being made to suffer unnecessarily by reducing or withdrawing pain medication ... more »

"METS for certain golfing activities were revised downward from 1993 estimates based on measurement of the activity using indirect calorimetry." Uh-oh. Put down that putter and pick up that mop, ax (if you're like the late President, Ronald Reagan, and like to chop wood while vacationing) or a jump rope. more »