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Cracked Rear View (Atlantic). Charged by rock 'n' roll but grounded in the blues, this quartet, based in Columbia, South Carolina, makes music with frat- party swagger, but the band's lyrics address such serious topics as the death of a parent and the racial implications of flying the Confederate flag. The rough, commanding voice of lead singer Darius Rucker, at left, makes it all work...
...appear to harm the kidneys.) Ending heavy use of Tylenol -- which accounts for 48 percent of the nation's $2.9 billion in annual pain reliever sales -- could prevent 10 percent of kidney failure cases, saving about $700 million in medical bills a year, the study concludes. But Johnson & Johnson, parent of Tylenol's maker, lashed out, calling the drug "remarkably safe" and saying the report would "unnecessarily alarm the public...
...genetic disease. It is not that purebreds have more defective genes than other dogs, or that inbreeding - somehow causes healthy genes to go bad. Most hereditary disorders in dogs are caused by recessive genes; as long as an animal has a good copy of the gene from one parent, it will override a bad copy from the other parent. But if both parents pass on the same bad gene -- which is more likely if mother and father come from the same family -- the puppy has a problem...
...again. "The foster family is the solution to our problems," says Joe Kroll of the North American Council on Adoptable Children. "Professionalize it, support it, compensate it. The costs of foster care would go up, but they would still be far less than the costs of institutions." Awarding foster- parent status -- and financial support -- to a child's relatives became a new focus...
...There's nothing bad I can say," Brown says. "I would say for someone following in his footsteps, he's a good mentor. I hope [the program] continues on and on. It really is a great asset to any parent whose children are going...