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Dorset heroes honoured in New Year list

December 31st, 2009 | Comments Off

UNSUNG heroes, charity champions and community stalwarts have been honoured across Dorset and the New Forest in the New Year Honours List today.

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Smoking increases age-related macular degeneration, finds UCLA study (News-Medical-Net)

December 31st, 2009 | Comments Off

Just in time for New Year’s resolutions, a UCLA study finds that even after age 80, smoking continues to increase one’s risk for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness in Americans over 65.

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The Man With the Sharpest Pen

December 31st, 2009 | Comments Off

For nearly 50 years, David Levine’s iconic caricatures skewered the great and the infamous.

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David Levine obituary

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In 1966 President Lyndon B Johnson, recuperating from gall bladder surgery, met reporters and pulled open his shirt to show them the scar from his operation.

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It’s never too late to quit smoking and save your vision (EurekAlert!)

December 31st, 2009 | Comments Off

( University of California – Los Angeles ) Need a little extra incentive to kick the habit?Just in time for New Year’s resolutions, a UCLA study finds that even after age 80, smoking continues to increase one’s risk for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness in Americans over 65. The American Journal of Ophthalmology publishes the findings in its January edition.

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David Levine called ‘greatest caricaturist of his time’

December 31st, 2009 | Comments Off

Karen Matthews New York – Published on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009 11:09PM EST D avid Levine, an artist whose witty caricatures illustrated The New York Review of Books for more than 40 years, has died.

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It’s Never Too Late to Quit Smoking and Save Your Vision, Finds Study of AMD in Elderly Women

December 31st, 2009 | Comments Off

Need a little extra incentive to kick the habit? Just in time for New Yeara s resolutions, a UCLA study finds that even after age 80, smoking continues to increase onea s risk for age-related macular degeneration , the leading cause of blindness in Americans over 65.

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It’s never too late to quit smoking and save your vision

December 31st, 2009 | Comments Off

Need a little extra incentive to kick the habit? Just in time for New Year’s resolutions, a UCLA study finds that even after age 80, smoking continues to increase one’s risk for age-related macular degeneration , the leading cause of blindness in Americans over 65.

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Rosalie Lenzora

December 31st, 2009 | Comments Off

Rosalie Marion Lenzora went home to be with her Lord Jesus on Dec. 17, 2009. A great-granddaughter of abolitionist John Brown, Rosalie was born Aug.

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Levine, caricaturist for New York Review, dies (Texarkana Gazette)

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NEW YORK—David Levine, an artist whose witty caricatures illustrated The New York Review of Books for more than 40 years, has died. He was 83. Levine died Tuesday at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan of prostate cancer and complications from other ailments.

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