LATimes.com
By Tony Perry and Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times
July 28, 2012, 8:52 p.m.

Educators visit Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego to watch exercises, gain a more nuanced view of the military and maybe recommend it to students.

Staff Sgt. James McFalin gets some laughs as he tells educators from L.A. and Sacramento about Marine recruits’ training. The teachers were participating in a four-day workshop at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, designed to counterbalance opposition to recruitment of high school students. (Don Bartletti, Los Angeles Times / July 24, 2012)

SAN DIEGO — The bellowing from the drill instructors began as soon as the newcomers arrived. "GET OFF THE BUS!" barked one D.I.

NaturalNews.com
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
by: Daniel C. Mizzi

(NaturalNews) Adverse drug reactions are ranked as the fifth leading cause of death causing more than 100,000 deaths/year, account for seven percent of all hospitalizations and costs over $100 billion annually in the United States. While within the elderly population (age 65 and above), adverse drug reactions are even more widespread with some studies showing the elderly are two to four times more likely to be hospitalized for adverse drug events than non-elderly. In addition, some estimates show up to 30 percent of all hospital admissions involving the elderly are due to some sort of drug-related problem (especially if they are in poor health and are taking multiple medications).

Age-related changes in elderly often can lead to adverse drug reactions

LATimes.com
August 2, 2012 | 2:54am

After facing days of criticism over its chief's executive's public stance against gay marriage, Chick-fil-A saw a flood of supporters converge on its locations on Wednesday.

In Los Angeles, some Tea Party groups and conservative activists organized visits to back the CEO and his stand. But others showed up at the stores as well. Scores of people lined up outside a Northridge Chick-fil-A on Wednesday afternoon.

To read the rest of this story and see the video, visit Los Angeles Times.

IrishTimes.com

Compiled by MARY HANNIGAN
Wednesday, August 1, 2012

In that a UFO over the Olympics? You bet it is

When Kevin Coakley walked in to his local branch of William Hill in Cardiff on Friday and asked for the odds on a UFO appearing over the Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremony, you’d have to bet a bit of giggling went on behind the counter. Still, he was given odds of 1000-1 so he put on a quid, and sat back and waited.

You probably know what happened next: a flying object was spotted over the Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremony. Whether it’s unidentified is the issue, though, with Goodyear claiming it was probably one of their blimps being used by NBC.

To read the rest of this story, visit The Irish Times.

RFERL.org
July 28, 2012

The report looked at the amount of money hidden away.

Gaps in cross-border tax rules have allowed a very small number of the world’s super-rich elite to hide an estimated $21 trillion in offshore bank accounts. That’s according to a new study, “The Price of Offshore Revisited.”

The astounding amount of hidden money cited in the report is more than the gross domestic products of the American and Japanese economies combined. The research was commissioned by the Tax Justice Network -- an independent organization started by the British Parliament to promote reform. The report’s author, James Henry, is the former chief economist for the global management consultant firm McKinsey & Company. RFE/RL's Bruce Jacobs spoke with him by phone from New York.