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No one is saying to cut out the Vitamin C, but a report in this week's Science New Online suggests that folks with generally positive outlooks about their lives develop fewer colds than do individuals whose emotional style tends to be more depressed, hostile, or anxious. This is not the first study to demonstrate the impact of emotional styles on physical health.

To: The Times Herald-Record, Middletown, New York (ral-rikabi@th-record.com, mmcguire@th-record.com, mlevine@th-record.com, rgaydos@th-record.com)
From: Tom Rue
Date: November 24, 2006
Re: Reader feedback on "Angry man strips in the middle of the road"

Those who are willing to entrust their lives and the lives of family members to the care of local elected officials may safely ignore this message. All others, read on. The checklist appearing below is from pandemicflu.gov. See also the following:

Ella Cruise Shannon was the last of a generation. She was the great-granddaughter of Irish immigrants who worked in the mills of the small industrial town of Lambertville, New Jersey which have since faded from memory. In her later years Ella was a school teacher and principal in northern New Jersey. As a younger woman, she served in the American Red Cross in England and Korea during the second World War. But aside from her distinguished professional careers, she held a special place in her family.

For 132 years the state psychiatric center in Middletown [photos] has provided care to chronically mentally ill adults. Founded in 1874 as the Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital, in more recent times the facility has been known simply as Middletown State Hospital or Middletown Psychiatric Center.

This week, the hospital will discharge its last patient and close its doors for good.

Do you or someone you care about have Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder? Essential features of ADHD are a persistent pattern of inattention and impulsivity, with or without hyperactivity. Symptoms first appear in childhood and may persist into adulthood. These are a few links that I've stuck together. I'll add more as time goes by. If you find any that don't work, or if you have any to add or any general thoughts on the subject, feel free to comment. Blogs and websites on ADHD

The desperation given eloquent voice by Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans speaks to the ineffectual leadership in Washington. It's unfortunate that Nagin is not sitting in the White House rather than in a city in ruins.

Bush took advantage of 9/11 to rationalize his looting and conquest of Iraq. He led us into a pointless war against a country that had not attacked us, and has wasted billions of dollars and thousands of barrels of innocent blood to portray himself as a patriotic "wartime president" while pursuing imperialist objectives in the Middle East.

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