| Apple stock flirted once again with $200 close
With rumors of a new sub-notebook Mac to be announced there next month, many are speculating that Apple's stock will continue to rise through 2008 as high as $300 per share and beyond. Despite overall disappointment in holiday sales this year, the quarter ending on December 31 could be a banner one for the Cupertino company. .
Save your life, have a health check
READING about preventing catastrophic illness is as unpleasant as reading the fine print on a will, power of attorney or a life insurance policy. Facing our mortality and learning about preventing heart, lung or kidney failure, strokes, amputations, dementia and hip replacements, is not easy, but we should do it as a necessary part of protecting those we love. As medical technologies keep our ageing population alive longer, the over-50s age group will become a heavy burden on the young. The escalating costs of healthcare and private health insurance; the increasing strain on accident and emergency departments, hospitals and nursing homes and the worsening medical and nursing shortage have been identified by the new federal Labor Government as a first-order economic challenge.
An Elephant never forgets good nutrition
Ed Bauman gives a lecture on how you and your loved ones can avoid cancer through nutrition and medicinal herbs from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Elephant Pharm in Berkeley. Dr. Elson Haas teaches the ins and outs of theDetox Diet for the New Year from 7 to 8 p.m. Jan. 23. Learn how to develop a home yoga practice with Jeffrey Levin, certified yoga teacher from 11 a.m. to noon, Jan. 26. All classes are free. At 1607 Shattuck Ave. Call 510-549-9200 or visit http://www.elephantpharm.com. Alta Bates Summit Medical Center The Alta Bates Summit Medical Center hosts a mind-body oriented workshop for cancer survivors and those touched by a cancer diagnosis. Workshops meet from 1:15 to 2:30 p.m. the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month and is a series of four classes.
By Kate Leckie News-Post Staff
Charles James Williams is out of work. Nonetheless, he's a grateful man this holiday season. Newly free after spending about six months in jail for burglarizing churches to support a crack cocaine habit, Williams, 55, has been welcomed into the Frederick County Drug Treatment Court. To be accepted into the program, Williams had to admit guilt for his crimes -- and the eight local churches he burglarized had to go along with the plea agreement reached by the defense and the prosecution. "I attribute it to God," Williams said. "It's nothing short of a miracle." The incentive to abide by the rules of drug court is great -- failure to do so could result in a 30-year prison sentence on burglary charges. "At 55, that would be a life sentence," Williams said. The father of two sons ages 13 and 25, wants to warn young people not to get sucked into addiction through peer pressure.
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