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ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’ll be reminded of how hospitality is sacred to you. You approach your role as a host with thoughtfulness, creativity and intuition, sensing how others would like to be cared for, and you give the same level of attention to your role as a guest. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’ll get what you want and need because you’re willing to let go of certain positions and ideas about yourself. This flexibility allows you to adapt, evolve and move toward what truly matters, rather than staying stuck in an outdated version of who you thought you had to be. ...

Today in History

Today is Monday, March 24, the 83rd day of 2025. There are 282 days left in the year. Today in history: On March 24, 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound and began leaking an estimated 11 million gallons of crude oil. Also on this date: In 1882, German scientist Robert Koch announced in Berlin that he discovered the bacillus responsible for tuberculosis. In 1921, the Women’s Olympiad, the first international women’s sporting event, began in Monte Carlo, Monaco. In 1980, Catholic Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero of El ...

Eastern Pa. small business award winners announced

From Staff reports The U.S. Small Business Administration’s Eastern Pennsylvania District Office announces its 2025 Small Business Week Award Winners. The SBA’s Eastern Pennsylvania Small Business Awards winners are selected from among nominees located across Pennsylvania’s eastern 40 counties. The local recognition is part of the annual, Presidentially-designated National Small Business Week. During National Small Business Week, taking place May 4 – May 10, 2025, the U.S. Small Business Administration recognizes and awards outstanding entrepreneurs, small business owners, and ...

Is the jig up for elite higher education?

Over the last three decades, elite American universities have engaged in economic, political, social, and cultural practices that were often unethical, illegal — and suicidal. They did so with impunity. Apparently, confident administrators assumed that the brand of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and other elite universities was so precious to the nation’s elite movers and shakers that they could always do almost anything they wished. By the 1970s, non-profit universities had dropped pretenses that they were apolitical and non-partisan. Instead, they customarily violated ...

As holiday luck would have it

Dear Readers: In light of St. Patrick’s Day, I want to share this story from “Same Boat,” who wrote a response recently to share the story of how he reconnected with his fiancee from 28 years ago. With all the twists and turns of life, his story is about as lucky as they get. May your holidays be equally serendipitous! Dear Annie: Thank you for publishing my response to “Nostalgic and Regretful.” I wanted to share with you something I recently wrote regarding my fiancee and my love story –– our “romance novel,” if you will. We met in March 1994 at a local pizzeria. ...

Magnesium helps with bigeminy heartbeat

DEAR DR. ROACH: Several months ago, I developed a case of a bigeminy heartbeat. My cardiologist prescribed metoprolol. At about the same time, I had reduced my intake of magnesium from about 50 percent of the daily value (DV) to 35 percent. (This may have preceded the bigeminy onset.) Quite by accident, I read an article recommending magnesium for a heart arrhythmia. Within a week or so of reading the article, I started magnesium gluconate at 100 percent of the DV. I have been taking this and metoprolol for about a month, and my condition has improved about 95 percent. The question is: ...