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Deepak Chopra greets a follower Soul searchingDeepak Chopra has moved from medical to spiritual healing with a simple message: Heeding your yearnings could transform your life. When the danger is relative, assessing risk can be riskyThe recent stories seem endless: Ricin in the mail, airline flights canceled due to possible terror plots, a kid goes to school and leaves with a fatal gunshot wound. Thus a fair question to ask around the water cooler is, how dangerous is our world? Related contentPASADENA, Calif. -- One person apparently thought the Pasadena Playhouse's stage production of ``Dirty Blonde'' was worth immortalizing. Published April 6, 2004 ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- J-Lo's mom is one lucky lady. Published April 6, 2004 People using antidepressants received mixed messages from federal drug regulators last week. Published April 6, 2004 QDo I need to be worried about e-coli from bird droppings under our feeder? I read that e-coli bacteria is being found in some Minnesota streams and it is from birds. Published April 6, 2004 This day in history: Robert Perry and two native guides reported that they reached the North Pole on April 6, 1909. Published April 6, 2004 EXTRAS Published April 6, 2004 Boston's WGBH-TV won three Peabody awards last week for programs about string theory, one of the nation's most dangerous manufacturing companies and how a racially motivated killing mobilized the civil-rights movement. All three winners aired on PBS: "The Elegant Universe," "Frontline: A Dangerous Business" and "The Murder of Emmett Till." Published April 6, 2004 When parents take children with earaches to Dr. Chuck Oberg, a Minneapolis pediatrician, they may not get what they've come to expect: an antibiotic that will zap the infection. Published April 6, 2004 Most of the great movie musicals offered florid, fanciful escape from the mundane limitations of "real life," and yet one of the best musicals ever made celebrated the prosaic rituals of middle-class existence. That film, "Meet Me in St. Louis," is 60 years old this year, and it culminates in a sequence set in the spring of a century ago. Published April 6, 2004 Knowing full well the importance of the handshake, Kim Millett prepares for a night of handshaking by placing a white nametag on her right side, just below her neckline. Published April 6, 2004 Sunday proved a great day for chamber music, both homegrown and imported. Minnesota's own Bakken Trio performed at the Southern Theater, and the Pacifica String Quartet was part of the Music in the Park series at St. Anthony Park United Church of Christ. They offered diverse yet serendipitously complementary programs. Published April 6, 2004 LOS ANGELES -- Disney is considering when to restructure its ABC television network. Published April 6, 2004 PITTSBURGH -- A college newspaper ran a racially charged cartoon in an April Fool's Day edition, incensing readers and provoking an official review. Published April 6, 2004 • Joan Van Ark, the resident bawler of "Knots Landing," returns to the world of scandal, double-crossing and cheating as she joins the cast of "The Young and the Restless" (11:30 a.m. WCCO, Ch. 4). Published April 6, 2004 I concede every objection you might have to this piece. We live in a nation of such bounty and ease that only the most cramped and pampered citizen can have the sort of complaint displayed below. Luckily for you, I am that citizen. Let's begin. Published April 6, 2004 NEW YORK -- The Los Angeles Times won five Pulitzer Prizes, the second most by a newspaper in one year, and The Blade of Toledo, Ohio, won its first Pulitzer - for an investigative report on civilian killings by an elite U.S. Army unit in Vietnam 37 years ago. Published April 6, 2004 It says something when a play's most memorable actor is the guy who flits among several different roles. What it suggests in Frank Galati's adaptation of "The Grapes of Wrath" is that John Steinbeck's sprawling novel of disenfranchisement and leftist politics doesn't translate well into a tightly wound and specifically theatrical endeavor. Episodic and bent more on ideas than metaphor, it feels too literal and realistic for the stage. Published April 6, 2004 • What: Adapted by Frank Galati from John Steinbeck's novel. Directed by Matt Sciple. Published April 6, 2004 Television news anchor Don Shelby has a hole in his heart that will require surgery in the near future, he told officials at WCCO-TV Monday. Published April 5, 2004 Uncle Al strongly believes that violence should be avoided whenever possible. This belief emerged very early in his life, as evidenced by his decision at about age 9 to take to violin lessons rather than the accordion lessons that actually had sounded more appealing to him. Published April 5, 2004 Don't be surprised if the scream-o-meter in the Disney on Ice production of "Monsters, Inc." reaches levels higher than usual during this week's shows at Target Center. The noise probably will be coming from the large contingent of fans cheering for Amanda Korobko. Published April 5, 2004 STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- The founder of Swedish furniture giant Ikea isn't hurting for money, but the company he founded denied today a report that he surpassed Bill Gates and Warren Buffett as the world's wealthiest man. Published April 5, 2004 HANOI, Vietnam -- Thousands of Vietnamese are making pilgrimages to a beach in southern Vietnam to worship a dead whale. Published April 5, 2004 MILWAUKEE -- Joseph James Zimmermann Jr., who invented the telephone answering machine in 1948 and patented it a year later, has died at the age of 92. Published April 5, 2004 NEW YORK -- The 2004 Pulitzer Prize for fiction was awarded Monday to Edward P. Jones for ``The Known World,'' his long-anticipated historical novel about a black slave owner. Published April 5, 2004 |
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