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A Few Drinks A Day Could Keep You From Getting Sick

by Lauren F Friedman, Business Insider New evidence suggests that a drink a day could help keep the doctor away — when it comes to cold and flu season, that is. While plenty of research has touted the benefits of resveratrol, an ingredient in red wine, a small study published Dec. 18 in the journal […]

Common Knee Surgery Does Very Little for Some, Study Suggests

By Pam Belluck Two Procedures, Same Result. A study compared a common surgical repair to the meniscus and a simulated surgery. The outcomes matched. A popular surgical procedure worked no better than fake operations in helping people with one type of common knee problem, suggesting that thousands of people may be undergoing unnecessary surgery, a […]

The 14 Most Stressful Jobs In America

by Vivian Giang We all think our jobs are stressful, but having a job on the extreme end of the spectrum can mean strict deadlines, brutal criticism, and even regularly having other people’s lives in your hands. To find out what the most stressful jobs in America are, we reached out to career information expert […]

The Ripple Effect of Foreclosures on Neighborhoods and Beyond: Part B

by Owusu Kizito, MBA/EA In “weak market” cities, even when some neighborhoods were reviving, overall housing demand remained weak and poverty levels were high. Foreclosures have hit these already-vulnerable regions hard. However, stronger market cities are also suffering. Take New York City for example, although somewhat cushioned by its high rate of renters and its […]

Christian Council of Ghana unsettling about events in their country

The Christian Council of Ghana (CCG) a body of autonomous Christian Churches and Ecumenical organizations has come out with a comprehensive comunique that it hopes would stem some of the canker that is eating into the socio economical, political, and cultural fabric of Ghana. In the communique of December 2013, the CCG threw an open […]

Down Memory Lane: What Limann said after his one-year in office

  December 31, 2013 marked 32 years overthrow of President Hilla Limann by Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings. Daily Graphic reproduces an exclusive interview granted to GBK Owusu, then editor of the Christian Messenger in 1980. GBK Owusu: Exactly a year ago you and your People’s National Party won an overwhelming majority in the general […]

Madiba Mandela: Modern Messiah

By M.O. Ene Life is so simple a story it is worth repeating whenever a great person departs our world: If you are born, you will die. This is the first law of nature, the ironic law of life. Life itself is a set of personalized variables bracketed in a basically dormant domain by two […]

Mandela’s Favorite Poem Is Also Beloved by White Supremacists

by J. Dana Stuster During his imprisonment on Robben Island, Nelson Mandela found inspiration in what has come to be one of the most hackneyed poems in the English language. Mandela is hardly alone in his admiration for the Victorian-era poem ‘Invictus’ — other fans included John F. Kennedy and Timothy McVeigh — and Mandela […]

Immigrants and the U.S. Housing Market – forestalling foreclosure

by Evelyn Latse, Esq. It is no news that the U.S. housing market has suffered a devastating decline in the past few years.  One of the most hard-hit segments of the housing crash is the immigrant population. From lack of information to a lack of understanding of the U.S. housing market, many immigrants find themselves […]

Preparing For An IRS Audit: Part Three

by: Dr. Peter Ikre This piece marks the culmination of a 3-part series on the audit or examination procedure of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) designed to sensitize taxpayers (individuals and businesses) to the need for scrupulous preparation toward the yearly tax filing exercise. It is pointless attracting the attention of the IRS due to […]

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