The Veterans Administration is opening a ninth satellite health care clinic today in Mankato.
V.A. spokesman, Ralph Heussner, says the facility will put special emphasis on mental health care needs.
“Mental health is a high priority for the V.A. Our facility has added 40 staff in the last year. With the additional staff, we’re able expand those [...]
The sharp black suits, upswept chignons and click-clack of high heels could have been the opening steps of an Yves Saint Laurent fashion show. But instead of glossy red lips, there were red-rimmed eyes as the Parisian worlds of fashion, art and politics turned out to say farewell to the towering creative figure of 20th-century [...]
Evolution has run riot on Yemen’s windy isles of Socotra, whose dizzying cliffs, jagged peaks and exotic plants entice the imagination to do the same.
Here be dragons, or at least Dragon’s Blood trees, prized for their red medicinal sap. Fearsome gales blow beaches up hillsides. People speak an obscure language older than Arabic.
The ancients cherished [...]
British designer Alexander McQueen doesnt want The Simple Life star as a customer when he opens his stylish Los Angeles boutique next month.
McQueen said: If she comes past the shop, hopefully she will just keep walking. I dont really covet that sort of thing. Im not too fond of these openings, I find them quite [...]
Right at the tip of Hokkaido, deep in a lush tract of forest known as the Shiretoko peninsula, is a true natural wonder: the thermal waterfall of Kamuiwakka-no-taki. Translated from the local Ainu language, as Water of the Gods, it bubbles out of the volcanic earth high up in Io-zan mountain before surging past a [...]
Phenology studies the climate-dependent variations of seasonal phenomena of plant life. In this study, the researchers particularly focused on the date of leaf appearance in boreal forests. In the northern hemisphere at high latitudes, foliation depends essentially on temperature. It is, therefore, considered direct evidence of the warming of the climate observed during the 20th [...]
The combination has forced the economy to the forefront of the national conversation in a way it has not been since the go-go 1990s, and for entirely opposite reasons.As economists and Wall Street types grope for historical perspective — which is another way of saying a road map out of this mess — Americans are [...]
“We’re all, of course, wondering what’s going to happen. We’ve heard rumors but we don’t know anything,” said Kim Morrison, one of the administrators of a private school located just across the road from Neverland.One of those rumors has soccer star David Beckham interested in the property.”I wouldn’t mind having a new neighbor. It would [...]
Sliding across a frozen lake in the Norwegian wilderness, the stars twinkling above you as a team of huskies pulls you onwards sounds lovely, wouldn’t you say? You might even think it sounds idyllic. Well, let me tell you: it was horrible. Here [...]
