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Lifestyles

DEAR HELOISE: Always pick up your own dog’s waste

DEAR HELOISE: I read your recent column in the Beaver Dam Daily Citizen. I’m a walker, not a dog owner. I’ve observed that many dog owners do pick up the doo-doo, but then when they think no one is watching, they drop the bag on someone else’s lawn or in the street. Please take the bag ...

TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH: Nodules unlikely sign of cancer

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 76-year-old woman in what I thought was excellent health. On a recent coronary calcium CT scan that was ordered because of my age and slightly elevated cholesterol, an incidental finding was described in the report as “innumerable, tiny noncalcified pulmonary nodules ...

Bridge by Steve Becker

This deal occurred in the final of the 2025 Vanderbilt Teams. South was Marty Fleischer, captain of the winning team. Fleischer was off to a good start when West led the ace of clubs, the suit East had preempted in. When East played the club queen on the ace, West shifted to a low heart, ...

Puzzles? Sports? Birdsong?

Birding. Photography. The great outdoors. Big Macs. Chances are good there’s a nonfiction book out there to suit just about anybody on your holiday gift list. Some ideas: For your puzzlers Imagine, if you will, a world without mobile phones, the internet or The New York Times (digital ...

Will we see action on prescription ads?

The United States is distinctive in many ways, but at least one unique characteristic may change in the coming months. We are one of just two countries in the world that permits prescription drug advertisements to be beamed directly to consumers — that is, to patients rather than doctors. ...