Good baseball article: how to throw a changeup

I’m not a NY Mets fan, but here’s a really neat feature about their newly acquired superstar pitcher, Johan Santana. And he’s a rarity – a pitcher whose strike-out pitch is a changeup. Santana’s Changeup: Hitters Never See It Coming – New York Times Six years after Santana began meticulously honing his four-seam grip as … Read more

A recovery story

Recovery from sexual assault – from Christianity Today Very powerful – you have to read the whole thing Calling on the Saints | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction Some have suggested that the church was partly to blame for my rape. They have a point. My husband and I had moved into … Read more

Darfur Update: “Scorched earth”

Lives in the balance – Scorched-Earth Strategy Returns to Darfur – New York Times SULEIA, Sudan — The janjaweed are back. They came to this dusty town in the Darfur region of Sudan on horses and camels on market day. Almost everybody was in the bustling square. At the first clatter of automatic gunfire, everyone … Read more

Birthday dinner last week

My good friend Paul Novotny had a birthday last week, so last Saturday we went with Paul and Doreen to an Italian place – Lago Di Como – in Tarrytown to celebrate. Top notch cuisine Westchester Restaurants, Tarrytown, Dinner reservations in Westchester : Lago di Como Ristorante, Nothern Italian Cuisine And here’s Doreen and Paul: … Read more

Keeping a journal can be helpful for cancer patients

Here’s an interesting posting on the health blog at the NY Times. I left a comment. The Power of Words for Cancer Patients – Well – Tara Parker-Pope – Health – New York Times Blog Researchers from the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center in Washington, D.C., studied the effects of expressive writing on 71 adults with … Read more

FDA gives conditional approval for Avastin use by breast cancer patients.

I posted about this last week.  Tom Faranda’s Folly: The FDA and cancer drug testing The FDA went against past form and approved the drug – Breast Cancer Reprieve – WSJ.com Avastin shouldn’t have been controversial. But an FDA panel ruled that "progression-free survival" was not sufficient, because the agency’s usual acid test for anticancer … Read more