HEALTH
Latina, March 2010 - Sound the Alarm
One in seven Latina teenagers will attempt suicide. Not only has this trend remained steady for more than a decade, but also the rate is higher than those of white or black teens. But in recent months, new research has begun to yield answers about why so many of our girls are trying to take their own lives.
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Philadelphia Inquirer, March 2011 - A falling risk in Camden (AVAILABLE FOR REPRINT)
In Camden, America’s second-most violent city, assaults make headlines. But another serious injury in the city of 79,000 is sending hundreds of Camden residents to the hospital every year, racking up millions in medical charges and, in some cases, shortening lives: falls.
HEALTH
Philadelphia Inquirer, March 2010 - Where to get a doctor's appointment -- today Page 2 (AVAILABLE FOR REPRINT)
Struggling with a hacking cough that kept getting worse, Paul Spelman needed to see a doctor in January - and fast. His wife was just weeks away from giving birth to their first child. But Spelman, 30, a graduate student at the Wharton School, didn't have a family doctor in Philadelphia. So when his cough woke him up early one morning, he searched online for a quick appointment in the city.
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Latina, October 2010 - How to Stop Overeating
For many of us growing up, refusing to clean your dinner plate simply wasn’t an option. From fathers who wanted to stress the value of a dollar to immigrant mothers who faced hunger when they were young, well-meaning parents may have inadvertently taught us to overeat. “Portion size is definitely one thing that is probably driving overeating in this country,” says Lucia Kaiser, Ph.D., a community nutrition specialist at the University of California, Davis.
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NJ Spotlight, June 2010 - Doctor Drain Sounds Alarm Among Policymakers
The most densely populated state includes too few doctors among its closely packed citizens. And that has New Jersey policymakers acting with added urgency on the worsening shortage of physicians, a statewide problem that is hitting southern counties particularly hard.
HEALTH
Newsday, January 2009 - Born into Luxury
With pullout sleeper sofas, 42-inch, flat-screen televisions and wireless Internet connections, the private rooms planned for two Long Island hospitals look more like upscale hotel lodgings than postpartum recovery suites. Stark, shared maternity rooms will go the way of outdated wards at Long Island hospitals.
HEALTH
With the Latino population set to triple by 2050, the already alarming number of cancer diagnoses in the Latino community could rise just as sharply, or even more drastically, according to a new compilation of research. “I see this as a train wreck that’s really waiting to happen,” said Lydia Buki, associate professor of community health at the University of Illinois.
SCIENCE & TECH
Newsday, June 2007 - Flight to Nowhere
Two government employees spent an hour on a rainy Wednesday morning doing a bird survey, part of an effort to determine locally what experts say is true nationally - that many common birds are slowly disappearing around the U.S. and Long Island.
SCIENCE & TECH
SmartPlanet.com, February 2010 - Death and the Internet: How your online identity can live on after death
Ever wonder what will happen to your email account after you die? What about the hundreds of photos you’ve stockpiled on Flickr? And will your blog live on, even if no one updates it?
SCIENCE & TECH
SmartPlanet.com, June 2011 - The 19-year-old innovator revolutionizing solar energy systems
Eden Full, a Princeton University student, created a solar panel rotating system called the SunSaluter. The device uses bimetallic strips, which are also found in thermostats, to sense temperature changes and adjust the solar panel’s angle to optimize energy collection throughout the day.
SCIENCE & TECH
SmartPlanet.com, March 2010 - MC Hammer: Rap artist turned social media 'super geek'
MC Hammer, known for his Grammy-winning music, has spent the past decade reinventing himself as a social media mogul... Last week, as the opening keynote speaker at the Wharton Business Technology Conference in Philadelphia, Hammer advocated that businesses embrace social media.
PROFILE & Q&A
University of Delaware Messenger, December 2010 - It's a bug's life for museum manager
Every day, tucked into a corner of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, thousands of insects and butterflies are eating and making messes, reproducing and living and dying. And Nathan Erwin is responsible for them all.
PROFILE & Q&A
KoreAm Journal, December 2008 - Bye-Bye, Bling (AVAILABLE FOR REPRINT)
“We’re, like, the most non-designer designers,” says Tina Chang, sitting across from her business partner, Esther Mun, at a coffee shop in downtown Manhattan. Indeed, dressed plainly and carrying items from their unadorned product line, born of a shared philosophy that prohibits “design for the sake of design,” Chang and Mun look less like stylistas than the European tourists and hipsters that populate the tables around them.
PROFILE & Q&A
SmartPlanet.com, March 2010 - Pauline Frommer on why smart people travel
A traveler since she was four months old, Pauline Frommer is the author of award-winning guidebooks, the host of a radio talk show and a columnist for MSN Travel and Weight Watchers. The daughter of Arthur Frommer, she has carved out a niche in the world of budget travel.
PROFILE & Q&A
SmartPlanet.com, April 2010 - The man who collects seeds to save mankind -- and promote justice
For Cary Fowler, saving thousands of seed varieties in a fail-safe vault in a remote Norwegian mountain is about more than life and death. It’s about justice. Fowler is the executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, which runs the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Nicknamed the Doomsday Vault, the project launched to “to serve as the ultimate safety net for one of the world’s most important natural resources.”
PROFILE & Q&A
SmartPlanet.com, March 2010 - Grant Imahara from MythBusters on busting myths and building robots
Grant Imahara is in the business of busting — or proving plausible — myths. As one of the faces of the Discovery Channel show MythBusters, Imahara gets to test out the tall tales that drive us crazy. I caught up with Imahara, a member of the show’s build team specializing in animatronics, while he was on the MythBusters set. He explained how he got into this field, talked about the myth he really wants to test and shared details of the project that’s keeping him late at work.
PROFILE & Q&A
Action, July 2010 - Hero Quest: In Search of a Star to Shine Light on Spina Bifida
Laura Tellado didn’t choose spina bifida. The condition chose her, striking before birth and leaving a signature lesion on her spine. More than two decades later, Tellado hopes others will choose spina bifida—as a cause. As the author of the blog
“Holdin’ Out for a Hero,” Tellado, 23, has devoted the last year to encouraging movie stars and other big-name public figures to serve as spokespeople for spina bifida, and to educating the public about the condition she lives with.
FOOD
The Bronx Times, 2007 - Bronx Little Italy soldiers on, as heritage fades
For how good this ricotta-filled cannoli tastes, one would think there were little Italian grandmothers slaving away in the kitchen of a Bronx pastry shop. But today, it is Mexican immigrants who create some of the tastiest treats in the Bronx's Little Italy.
FOOD
Spaghetti & Meatballs blog, January 2010 - The secret ingredient in tomato sauce is...
Last summer, Andrew and I made a quick sauce with fresh tomatoes from the farmers’ market. The tomatoes tasted sweet and delicious when raw, but as they stewed our quick sauce became tart and acidic. We tossed in spices, but nothing quite worked. We ate, disappointed. And I made a mental note to ask my grandmother how to never again ruin a fresh tomato sauce.
NEWS & FEATURES
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, July 2010 - Journalism education embraces ethnic media
At colleges and universities across the country, the study of ethnic media is growing. Some schools, such as California State University, Northridge, sanction studentwritten ethnic publications. The University of Georgia and Louisiana State University, among others, host events for ethnic media reporters. The expanding interest in ethnic media is, at least partly, a practical one. While many mainstream media outlets face declining revenues and readership, ethnic media is growing.
NEWS & FEATURES
Newsday, August 2009 - Helicopter-plane collision kills 9
Nine people were presumed killed when a sightseeing helicopter and a small plane collided over the Hudson River about noon yesterday, authorities said, resulting in the deadliest crash over the waterway in recent memory. The plane, bound for Ocean City, N.J., and carrying a pilot and two passengers, including a child, may have slammed into the back of the helicopter, which had five Italian tourists and a pilot aboard, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a news conference.
NEWS & FEATURES
Newsday, October 2007 - How John helped Jackson (Page 1)
When Michele Iallonardi heard about half-priced swimming lessons for children with autism, she was skeptical they would work for her son, Jackson. But ever hopeful, Iallonardi enrolled Jackson in one-on-one classes. "I'm never going to see what happens if I don't do it," she said. What happened was a surprising but too brief experience for Jackson, a connection that inspired Iallonardi to write a story for the most recent book in the motivational series "Chicken Soup for the Soul."
NEWS & FEATURES
Philadelphia Inquirer, October 2010 - Electronic medical records come to Camden
In a move to improve medical care and cut unnecessary services, Camden's three health systems will begin to go live Monday with a citywide health record that should enable doctors to better know their patients' medical histories. The Camden Health Information Exchange is one of the most advanced of a small
number of efforts nationally that seek to create broader medical-record systems, experts said.
NEWS & FEATURES
Newsday, November 2009 - Philadelphia beyond the Liberty Bell
The City of Brotherly Love is more than cheesesteaks and the Liberty Bell. From hipster havens packed with trendy galleries and downtown shopping to distinctive communities that retain
the city's classic traditions (Mummers, anyone?), Philadelphia has a neighborhood for every taste.
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