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Dear Pharmacist,I just started taking “doxycycline” for acne. The prescription label says to “avoid prolonged exposure to sunlight” and the guys in my apartment are razzing me because I won’t play tennis with them anymore. My room mate says he took doxycycline before going on a cruise and nothing happened to him. He bet me $100 to go outside for an hour, to show me that I won’t get...

It started when Marc and I grabbed a seat -- the first time we'd rested in hours. Marc, Jason and I were at the Major League Baseball draft, covering an amazing event. Former player Dave Winfield helped organize a symbolic draft for surviving Negro League players who never had a chance to play in the big leagues. They were the stars *before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier.But back to...

The temperature plunged to 34 degrees last night. Oh, I know, I know...you hinterlanders, you Nordespeople, you esqueermos...you’re laughing, aren’t you? You know what, you all can HAVE the snow because after the beautiful white flakes fall in the gazillions, they all turn black and wet or gray and frozen. Scraping an inch of frost off a windshield is not my idea of a good time (even though...

I held my breath. I always hold my breath when the scientists at Harvard sound the bell and tell us to gather round. Harvard scientists are always up to something; always studying one thing and then another and you never know what they are going to come up with next. Whatever it is though, you can bet that it is going to be life changing; some fun activity that you’ve done all your life and...

Bennie is 92 years old and grew up during some tough times in upstate New York. When I asked...

Now that I have officially been told that I do not live in my neighborhood’s historic district, that I’m simply on the fringes (the story of my life), I have completely lost focus; my life has no direction. I now sit barefooted on the back step and drink cheap beer all day while I wave at the homeless men who slouch around in the area. I even laughed and clapped when one of them threw a beer...

The other day, I was videotaping in Seminole County (Florida) when I stumbled upon this sign at a secluded spot near Lake Monroe. I climbed the old steps and looked around. Then, I realized I was standing on the graves of long dead Seminole Indians. I paid my respects and skedaddled. View from the mound Although, not the most exciting thing I've ever encountered, it is a piece...

I had the privilege to see Elvis Presley in concert on February 15,1977 at the Orlando Sports...

Rhonda Williams recently hit the jackpot! A few weeks ago, the Fairburn, Georgia resident was cleaning out her purse and discovered a lottery ticket worth a hundred eighty nine thousand dollars! A month prior, Irving Przyborski came across a lotto ticket that he’d bought and misplaced a year ago. The Chicago cab driver’s find was worth nine million dollars! Heartwarming lost and found...