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Who knew that doing time for a crime would lead to prisons providing “prescription drugs, wheeled walkers, a stretcher and a box of discreet, underwear-like adult diapers.” Such is the life of elderly prison inmates in Japan. They still are required to perform manual labor tasks for 6 hours a day. One inmate is 88. [...]

A collector is born the day she discovers that owning two or three or four of the same-but-different thing allows them to appreciate how the human mind likes to endlessly reinvent common shapes and forms in order to put food on the table. A collector is really a historian in disguise. What’s crucial for this [...]

Can’t sleep at night? Worried about the banker down the street who sold you a high-priced mortgage buried in hidden details? Did you take a out a second mortgage to live the good life only to discover you actually could lose your home entirely? Well, researchers have learned that “sleep does not change much from [...]

This is a terrible story. Imagine being a mother of 11 and a grandmother of 50 only to find yourself one day confronted by a 17-year-old punk who rapes and kills you. Awful. Just awful. No motivation either. Not a good Thank God It’s Friday story. Hopefully this kid’s minor status does not prevent him [...]

Get ready to bend over and take it like a desperate polar bear floating on an iceberg from the heating oil companies this winter. Like clock work, analysts are predicting the cost of heating oil will rise as if there were no Congress to regulate the companies selling us the stuff. The markets, these days, [...]

When death is just around the cemetery door it doesn’t really matter how much money you might have, or how big your house is, or whether you know important people. All that matters is your health. Those who wind up in a hospice are discovering that their desperate need to stay alive is fertile ground [...]