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By Noah Barron
1/28/2007
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/28/news/tb.php
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/healthnews.php?newsid=61487
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070123093509.htm
Summary:
In the flurry of news coverage surrounding possible or real pandemics of infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS, SARS, influenza and malaria, one reliable killer has been neglected, both in coverage and in prevention: tuberculosis.
These three articles discuss the imminent dangers facing South Africa from TB. A year ago, a virulent strain of TB in Johannesburg killed 52 out of the 53 infected patients. Now, experts say this strain may have spread to neighboring countries, and unless drastic action is taken, millions of lives may be lost. Read the rest of this entry »
Whether she’s analyzing her near-fatal car accident or accommodating the lawyers and defendants before her, Judge Juliet L. Boccone follows the golden rule.
By Noah Barron
Daily Journal Staff Writer
PORTERVILLE – After 14 years as a deputy district attorney and three as a personal-injury litigator, Judge Juliet L. Boccone is no stranger to horror stories of physical trauma, especially those that happen in car accidents. But a near-fatal crash on Nov. 10 left her with aches and scars, an altered perspective and a renewed vigor for her job.
“It is strange. It gives me a little more understanding of the things my clients would tell me,” she said about recovering from her injuries.
Boccone, a Superior Court judge in Porterville, near Visalia, was driving east on Highway 216, a narrow country highway, when Maria Rozum, 45, of Visalia failed to yield to traffic at a stop sign and crashed into Boccone’s Ford Escape, pushing it into the westbound lane, into the path of an oncoming 18-wheel tractor-trailer, which smashed into her driver’s side door.
World of Warcraft, the world’s most popular online video game, uses adventure, new content and community to keep 8 million players enthralled—and spending
By Noah Barron
PASADENA, Calif.— What could possibly induce more than 200 die-hard gamers to leave the warm comfort of their computer desks and brave 38-degree weather at midnight? In a word, WoW. No, not “wow,” though the turnout was impressive. WoW is the acronym by which Blizzard Entertainment’s staggeringly popular game World of Warcraft is known to its legions of fans.
Warcraft boasts over 8 million players worldwide and is what is known as a “massively-multiplayer online role-playing game,” or in the alphabet soup parlance of gamers, a “MMORPG.” In the game, players controlling different character types such as mages, paladins or warriors, cooperate to defeat magical foes and explore the game’s vast environment. Read the rest of this entry »
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January 03, 2007
SKATEBOARDING HIS WAY INTO THE COURTROOM
Child-Support ‘Anti-Lawyer’ Draws on Lessons From Former Pro Career
By Noah Barron
Daily Journal Staff Writer
VISALIA – Golf. Racquetball. Yachting. These come to mind as sports befitting an attorney.
Not for Tulare County child-support lawyer Phil Esbenshade, a.k.a. “Phil E.”
Before he was a lawyer, Esbenshade was a well-known professional skateboarder, and now, at 39, he’s still riding hard when he’s not in court in Visalia.
“I got into skating when I picked up a skateboard magazine in 1979, but I really got into it when I moved in with my dad who was kind of an abusive type,” Esbenshade recalled. Read the rest of this entry »
