Bush Rescinds Toussie Pardon

Bush Pulls Pardon of Robert Isaac Toussie
President George W. Bush has rescinded the presidential pardon he granted to Robert Isaac Toussie. Article discusses the President’s broad power to both grant and rescind pardons and reprieves.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1335854/bush_pulls_pardon_of_robert_isaac_toussie.html

 

Fantastic Retirement Living Choices

Finding a retirement home is easy. We have more options today than ever before. New developments are springing up every day across the nation to meet the wants and needs of a growing retired population that is living longer, healthier, more active, and independent lifestyles. Finding the right retirement home, however, requires a good deal of thought and a little prognostication on your part. The ideal retirement home for you is the one that not only meets your present needs, but one that will accommodate your needs well into the future. Changing homes is stressful at any stage of life and our ability to cope doesn’t improve with age. Assessing your needs today, anticipating how your needs will change as you age, and understanding your available options for retirement living, will help you make the right choice.

And, what wonderful choices you have today! Developers of retirement housing are fiercely competing for your business, which has forced them to become quite innovative in offering more and better retirement living options than ever before. Gone are the days of the one-size-fits-all philosophy of simply building comfortable and secure housing or warehousing for senior citizens in their decline. Developers are, instead, creating complete retirement lifestyles that are tailor-made to cater to the diverse interests and needs of adults at varying levels of activity and independence throughout their retirement years.  Read more…

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Cope With Stress in 12 Easy Steps

 

Stress makes us sick – mentally, physically, and emotionally. Medical researchers have long recognized the direct links between disease and stress. They estimate that as many as 80% of all visits to the doctor are the result of stress-induced illnesses, such as chronic fatigue, anxiety attacks, mood swings, depression, insomnia, ulcers, immune deficiency, chronic pain, migraines, high blood pressure, and heart disease. Recently, Rush Limbaugh (of talk radio fame) reported on the newest study out of the U.K. that says work-related stress substantially increases the risk of heart attack and stroke, too.

The link between stress and ill health is so strong, in fact, that techniques for reducing stress are an integral part of the holistic healing and alternative medicine approaches to wellness. In a quest to find a simple solution to stress, many people have turned to nutritional supplements and herb combinations like Echinacea, Coenzyme Q, pycnogenol, magnesium, Vitamin C, Gingko, and prescription drugs such as Xanax, Zoloft, and Ativan. While many of these are effective in relieving the symptoms of disease caused by stress, they are not effective in relieving stress itself.  Read more…

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