Sunday Gazette-Mail back issues from February 2008:
Instructor expands passion for yoga into a business
Feb 03, 2008; ... earle@wvgazette.comw April Woody no longer worries about regaining the 80 pounds shelost. "I am more Zen about it now," she says. She doesn't worry whether her new business, The Folded Leaf, is asuccess. "If it falls flat on its face, so what? I'm still going tobe ...
HBO's 'Bernard and Doris' find love and riches but little happiness
Feb 03, 2008; ... Doris Duke and Bernard Lafferty were a most unlikely couple. Shewas the richest woman in the world, an American born into astoundingprivilege. He was a penniless immigrant from Ireland who became herbutler. She was a sexual predator, preferring young, well-muscled men. Hewas ...
Gaga over the Aga: ; High-end range is treasured by its owners
Feb 03, 2008; ... julier@wvgazette.com If she ever moves from her South Hills home, Carolyn Neely won'ttake the kitchen sink, but she will take the range. It's an Aga, you see. The British-made high-end, cast-iron ranges are pricey - $12,000when Carolyn and husband Richard, a former ...
SMELL THE COFFEE: ; Chewdini, canine escape artist
Feb 03, 2008; ... I expect there are more socially acceptable techniques formeeting our neighbors, but doubt few would be as effective - or asexhaustive - as what we've experienced with my daughter's dog,Chewie. In years past, I've had nothing but German shepherds or shepherdmixes or mongrels ...
BEST SELLERS
Feb 03, 2008 ... USA Today Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback1. Duma Key by Stephen King (Scribner) (F-H)2. Eat,Pray, Love: One Womans Search for Everything Across Italy, India andIndonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin) (NF-P)3. Atonement byIan McEwan (Anchor) (F-H)...
BOOK REVIEW: ; ROMANCE; Independent heroine gets a clue
Feb 03, 2008; ... Those who enjoy watching the most confirmed bachelors succumb tothe love of their lives definitely will enjoy "Where the HeartLeads." It doesn't even take Barnaby Adair, who has stood by and watchedhis friends and their Cynster connections gladly give up theirbachelorhood with an ...
BOOK REVIEW: ; Tales of Ireland's shifting culture are poignant, funny
Feb 03, 2008; ... The change occurred, novelist Roddy Doyle believes, sometimearound the mid-1990s. "I went to bed in one country and woke up in adifferent one," he writes in the introduction to his bracing newcollection of stories, which trace Ireland's shift as a fairlyhomogenous culture to one that ...
Love-story collection is a true Valentine's Day book
Feb 03, 2008; ... Don't take this book review the wrong way; this is not anendorsement of Valentine's Day, which is just weeks away. I still think it's a crock of a holiday. Do we get a day off? No.Are we expected to line the pockets of confectioners, florists andgreeting-card makers? Yes. Is it ...
OUR ART: ; Capturing light, shadow, order and beauty
Feb 03, 2008 ... Anne Shreve, born 1926, Charleston, now living in FloridaInterior with Two Shells Oil on linen, 35 by 35 1/2 inches, 1990Gift of the artist to the Clay Center, 1992 Anne Shreve was never embarrassed to be a Realist. She paidattention to light and shadows, and she often painted what ...
BOOK REVIEW: ; Plot in 'Hand of Evil' gets out of hand
Feb 03, 2008; ... In "Hand of Evil," J.A. Jance's third novel about formertelevision journalist Ali Reynolds, the plot starts to read morelike a soap opera, complete with myriad life-threatening situations.Three semi-related storylines strain the credibility of the overlypacked book. But even when ...
BOOK REVIEW: ; Biography lauds Stegner's writing, career teaching it
Feb 03, 2008; ... Wallace Stegner (1909-93) liked to refer to the hub of Americanpublishing in the East as "headquarters." He said it deadpan, as aWesterner might, but his stature as his era's great literary"authority on the American West" conveyed the sardonic edge. Stegner had good cause to be ...
the MONDAY BOOK CLUB: ; Story intertwines Hong Kong's past and the 1990s
Feb 03, 2008; ... The next book in the Sunday Gazette-Mail Monday Book Clubs SecondStory series is Fragrant Harbor by John Lanchester (author of A Debtto Pleasure). The novel will be discussed at 6 p.m. Feb. 25 atTaylor Books, Capitol Street, Charleston. "Fragrant harbor" is a term applied to Hong ...
Out On the Town?
Feb 03, 2008 ... Photos and event information for On the Town may be mailed to Onthe Town, Sunday Gazette-Mail, 1001 Virginia St. E., Charleston, WV25301. Priority will be given to Kanawha Valley area events that areopen to the public. If photographs are to be returned, please put ...
HOROSCOPE:
Feb 03, 2008; ... Sunday, Feb. 3, 2008 Your birthday today: This could be your big year to learn aboutrecycling. Discards can be turned into profits. Transform somethingabundant into something precious. To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiestday, 0 the most ...
Help Out
Feb 03, 2008 ... Basket items needed The Friends of The Library Foundation of Kanawha County will beoffering literary-themed prepared baskets for its second annualsilent auction fundraiser. "A Tisket, A Tasket ... A Literary Basket" will begin at 6:30p.m. April 5 at the law firm of Farmer, ...
PILLS & ILLS: ; Be cautious buying drugs via the Internet
Feb 03, 2008; ... Q: We buy prescription medications over the Internet and haveheard that some online sources could be selling counterfeit drugs.Should we be concerned? A: You should definitely be concerned. If you purchaseprescription drugs online, be sure to deal only with a legitimateWeb ...
CINDY SAYS: ; Trends for 2008 blend mind and body workouts
Feb 03, 2008; ... In the midst of this new year's resolutions, you feel ithappening: The passion just a few short weeks ago to whip your bodyinto shape is waning. You try to resist the temptation to throw inthe towel. No, no, no! The voices in your head plead for you to pushon while the noises in your ...
Some teenagers likely losing sleep over technology
Feb 03, 2008; ... Help your teen get a few more winks * Pull the plug on thecomputer, television, video games and music at 9 p.m. to prepare thebrain for sleep. s Keep the bedroom comfortable, dark and quiet. *Develop a relaxing routine before bed, such as reading for pleasureor taking a warm shower. * ...
Tots need 'tummy time': ; Experts say keeping newborns free is key to muscle development
Feb 03, 2008; ... For months before anyone saw a problem with her infant daughter,Ellen Burkhardt would park the child in a bouncy seat without asecond thought, grateful for the extra minutes it gave her to makedinner or do a load of laundry. But then Burkhardt noticed that 6-month-old Natalie still ...
Clan diggers: ; Mutual ancestry and love of 'Braveheart' spur odyssey to Scotland
Feb 03, 2008; ... If you go We flew on British Airways (www.britishairways .com)from Atlanta, changing planes in London before flying intoEdinburgh. There are magnificent hotels in Edinburgh, including theSheraton Grand Hotel & Spa (www .starwoodhotels.com/ sheraton),which has a genealogy concierge ...
Travel Notes
Feb 03, 2008 ... More on New Orleans After reading Melody Pittman's "My Vacation: New Orleans" lastweek, Paul Warder e-mailed a note to add more "must-dos" on a visitto New Orleans, where he and his wife used to visit relatives everyspring. He suggests "Jackson Square, where artists do their ...
Post-Christmas cheer (for cheap)
Feb 03, 2008; ... AKRON, Ohio - When the Christmas decorations come down, yourhouse can seem as blah as the winter landscape. Now would be the perfect time for a decorative makeover -perfect, that is, if holiday bills weren't threatening to make offwith what's left of your bank account. Take ...
Radiant Mexican petunia dazzles
Feb 03, 2008; ... The Mexican petunia, or ruellia, is getting more popular witheach growing season, and I give a hearty "amen." One thing thatsurprised me is how it has crossed from home to commerciallandscapes. Most of the time, commercial landscape plants create afrenzy with homeowners. So as ...
INTO THE GARDEN: ; It's time for gentle country folk to begin pruning
Feb 03, 2008; ... I'm a hip kinda gal. I have an iPod. I'm writing this via WiFi onmy laptop, and the LCD TV is on in the background, coming to my homevia satellite dish. So why am I so enthralled by a publication thattouts "Old Time Ways to Grow & Use Fruits, Flowers & Vegetables" andsays it's written ...
Wrap yourself in towel know-how
Feb 03, 2008; ... Resources Consumer Reports: Quality ratings on towels atwww.consumer reports.org (search towels). The Green Guide: For moreinformation on towels and eco-friendly options, see www.thegreenguide.com (search towels). SEATTLE - Those who have wrapped themselves in a lush, thicktowel ...
DO IT YOURSELF: ; Liquid resin can tighten loose furniture joints
Feb 03, 2008; ... Q. Our wood dining-room chairs have some loose spindles and legsthat cause them to wobble slightly. I'd like to fix them, butwithout taking them apart. Is this possible? - J. Sweeney A. Wood joints sometimes loosen because the wood dries out andshrinks. You should be able to ...
Coffee candy: ; Chocolate offerings a natural extension for Capitol Roasters
Feb 03, 2008; ... lynch@wvgazette.com Standing by the gleaming, new glass candy case at CapitolRoasters, owner Tammy Durbin says the decision to add the counterwas pretty simple. "Who doesn't like chocolate?" Durbin and her husband, David, have had the West Virginiafranchise for Rocky ...
DINNER TONIGHT: ; Quick Asian shrimp soup fits today's fast-paced lifestyles
Feb 03, 2008; ... Soup used to be an all-day, slowly simmered production. No more;today's fast pace won't allow it. Fortunately, the tinny, saltybroths and soup bases of the past are being replaced by higherquality, tastier products with far less sodium than before. This quick Asian-style dish is ...
Swiss fondue: Cheesy '70s fad melts freezing friends
Feb 03, 2008; ... Winter is the perfect time for fondue, a fun 70s fad thatsenjoying a resurgence. Invite a few friends no more than four tosix, so everyone can reach the pot and make it a party. Fondueoriginated in Switzerland as a way of using hardened cheese and drybread. Melted Appenzeller, ...
Shrinking forests imperil climate, experts warn: ; World fells trees at 'alarming' rate
Feb 03, 2008; ... ABO EBAM, Nigeria - In the gloomy shade deep in Africa's rainforest, the noontime silence was pierced by the whine of a far-offchain saw. It was the sound of destruction, echoed from wood towood, continent to continent, in the tropical belt that circles theglobe. From Brazil to ...
In French Creek, Freddie holds forth: ; Groggy groundhog sees shadow, predicts 6 more weeks of winter
Feb 03, 2008; ... rsteelhammer@wvgazette.com FRENCH CREEK - For the 30th year in a row, officials at the WestVirginia Wildlife Center opened the doors to a man-made groundhogburrow at 10 a.m. sharp on Groundhog Day, giving French CreekFreddie access to his expansive enclosure on a frozen, grassy ...
The Main Ingredient: ; Lard vs. butter; Our test reveals what makes the very best biscuits
Feb 03, 2008; ... robbyers@wvgazette.com tara@wvgazette.com "I think I'm going to write about lard this week," I (Tara)mentioned in a staff meeting. Lips curled in quickly hidden distaste. A few kindly souls noddedpolitely with fixed smiles, the way my parents did when I announcedI ...
Candidates scramble for Super Tuesday: ; Clinton, McCain lead parties as 20 states prepare for primaries
Feb 03, 2008; ... Sen. John McCain barnstormed through a skeptical South onSaturday, campaigning for a Super Tuesday knockout in the Republicanpresidential race. Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary RodhamClinton worked the West on the final weekend before primaries andcaucuses in more than 20 ...
W.Va. bridges inspected less often than most other states, data show
Feb 03, 2008; ... W.Va. spans Bridge inventory through 2006, as reported in April2007 Late for inspection 0.4% More than 2 years since lastinspection 12% Source: MSNBC.com tara@wvgazette.com Bridges in West Virginia are more likely than those in almost anyother state to go longer than two ...
Passion for yoga
Feb 03, 2008 ... Instructor April Woody takes a Zen ...
Super Bowl XLII
Feb 03, 2008 ... Giants and Patriots square off ...
College hoops
Feb 03, 2008 ... WVU beats Providence 77-65; Alabama-Birmingham ...
'Blue haze' inquiry narrows to John Amos
Feb 03, 2008; ... kward@wvgazette.com Investigators continue to try to piece together what caused asmelly blue haze that hung over the Kanawha Valley a week ago. Federal and state environmental officials say they are all butcertain that the material came from American Electric Power's ...
West Virginia Lottery
Feb 03, 2008 ... Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008 Daily 3 860 Daily 4 4603 Hot Lotto 14-20-23-32-38: 12 Night Pick 3 390 Night Pick 4 ...
Correction
Feb 03, 2008 ... The West Virginia Alzheimer's Association will honor some areacelebrities at its fundraiser Saturday at The Vault. However, ...
Today's News
Feb 03, 2008 ... AP photo A float rider throws beads during the Krewe of IrisMardi Gras parade in New Orleans on Saturday. Revelers had goodweather the weekend before Fat Tuesday. nnn Waterboarding is torture. No, it's a good interrogation tool. Asthe debate rages, several people decided to try it ...
Chewable ice becomes a hot snack
Feb 03, 2008; ... When Kyle Burkhalter gets up in the morning, he goes into thekitchen and fixes himself a nice cup of ice. The 24-year-old director of research for a Web site chews the icein the car on his way to work in Atlanta. He downs two or three morecups before lunch. He orders ice from ...
A quiz: Match the actors to the politicians of 08
Feb 03, 2008; ... Make up your own playbill for Campaign '08 by matchingpoliticians to the talent pool of actors who could portray them (theanswers are upside down at end of story). Hint: Age doesn't matter and appearance isn't everything. 1. John McCain 2. Bill Clinton 3. John ...
French President Sarkozy marries former model
Feb 03, 2008; ... PARIS - They had a glitzy, jet-setting courtship, but when itcame time for the wedding, French President Nicolas Sarkozy andformer supermodel Carla Bruni opted for a simple, classic ceremony -and the bride wore white. Sarkozy, 53, and Bruni, 40, were married Saturday in a ...
N.J. absentee voters whose candidate quit can vote second time
Feb 03, 2008; ... TRENTON, N.J. - Vote early and often is more than a joke in NewJersey. Due to a ruling by a state judge in Ocean County, voters who castabsentee ballots in that county for a presidential candidate wholater withdrew from the race, such as Republican Rudy Giuliani orDemocrat John ...
Romney victorious in Maine caucus
Feb 03, 2008; ... AUGUSTA, Maine - Mitt Romney won the presidential preferencevoting among Maine Republicans on Saturday in the party's municipalcaucuses, which were heavily attended across the state. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, had a little over halfof the vote with about two-thirds ...
Campaign 2008: A blockbuster stranger than fiction
Feb 03, 2008; ... WASHINGTON - It's something that might take shape in the feveredmind of a striking Hollywood writer, desperate for a creativeoutlet: an epic film about an election campaign. The race for theWhite House, say, in the year 2008. One could imagine the writer meeting a studio boss to ...
Police arrest 'Hobo Bandit' robbery suspect
Feb 03, 2008; ... SANTA ANA, Calif. - A bank robbery suspect whose "Hobo Bandit"appearance inspired a bank teller to paint his portrait has beenarrested, police said. Kirby Dean Guyette, 52, suspected of robbing two banks, was takeninto custody Thursday. The alleged getaway driver, 52-year-old ...
Willing waterboarding participants live to tell panicky tale
Feb 03, 2008; ... RIO RANCHO, N.M. - One night last month, Jean-Pierre Larroquedrove into the desert here, lay down in the road and waited for oneof his best friends to waterboard him. Just a few hours earlier, the 26-year-old Peace Corps volunteerhad been debating with two close friends whether ...
Rebels, government forces clash in Chad's capital city
Feb 03, 2008; ... NAIROBI, Kenya - Hundreds of rebels charged into Chad's capitalaboard pickup trucks Saturday, clashing with government troopsaround the presidential palace in the most forceful attempt yet tooust President Idriss Deby. The violence endangered a $300 million global aid ...
More violence erupts between Kenyan factions
Feb 03, 2008; ... ELDORET, Kenya - Young men from rival ethnic groups hunted eachother through the streets of a western Kenyan town Saturday, burninghouses and blocking roads a day after the country's political foesagreed to try to end weeks of violence. Western Kenya has been at the center of ...
Officials, families seek clues in rash of pancreatic cancer
Feb 03, 2008; ... OROVILLE, Calif. - Judy McInturf is making a list of the sick andthe dead. On it are old friends, her son's former co-worker, her daughter'sfriend, family acquaintances, their adult children, and, of course,her late husband, Haskel. In hindsight, McInturf wonders if there ...
A long time coming: ; Candidates' proposals no quick fix
Feb 03, 2008; ... DAVIS, Calif. - Sue Jones leaves work at 5 p.m. She picks upBenjamin. She cooks dinner. She watches "Curious George" DVDs. Somenights there are Chutes and Ladders. When Benjamin heads to bed, she washes dishes, packs lunch andworries about keeping her house. Benjamin, 4, is a ...
Generation map: ; Campaign pundits predicting outcome by nontraditional factors
Feb 03, 2008; ... SAN JOSE, Calif. - He's a member of the "Silent Generation," agroup who came of age during the Cold War conformity of the 1950s -a generation yet to hold the White House. She's the arch Baby Boomer, an emblem of the idealistic Us vs.Them student politics of the '60s, the ruthless ...
Breakthrough made in writers strike
Feb 03, 2008; ... LOS ANGELES - A breakthrough in contract talks has been reachedbetween Hollywood studios and striking writers and could lead to atentative deal as early as this week, a person close to the ongoingnegotiations said Saturday. The two sides breached the gap Friday on the thorniest ...
Police let her down, says woman scarred by abuse
Feb 03, 2008; ... JONESVILLE, N.C. - Vernetta Cockerham-Ellerbee peeled back thecurtain of her bedroom window and saw the man she once loved enoughto marry. Hunched over in a field across the street, Richard Ellerbeetoiled, shoveling clumps of dirt over his shoulder. She glanced pasthim to the ...
Yosemite tribes battle over recorded history of national park
Feb 03, 2008; ... YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - For centuries, the Mono LakePaiutes and the Miwok fought over Yosemite's natural and spiritualbounty. Today, as the Southern Sierra Miwok plan to build a new Indianvillage on 5 acres amid Yosemite Valley's pine and oak trees,several Sacramento ...
Mining company, Calif. town consider re-opening Gold Rush-era mine
Feb 03, 2008; ... GRASS VALLEY, Calif. - Open the rusted door to an abandoned goldmine on the outskirts of this tourist-rich Sierra Nevada town andit's a 3,500-foot drop straight down - and straight back to the daysof California's Gold Rush. This is where David Watkinson wants to ...
U.S. war dead
Feb 03, 2008; ... Iraq 3,943 Elsewhere 478 Sources: AP/Department of Defense As of Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008, at least 3,943 members of the U.S.military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includeseight military civilians ....
U.S. won't 'give back any terrain' in Iraq
Feb 03, 2008; ... BAGHDAD - The city's top U.S. commander said Saturday thatbombings carried out by two likely unwitting women that killed 99people underscores that al-Qaida in Iraq remains a serious threat,but vowed that the military will "not give back any terrain" to theterrorists. Iraqis in ...
Theaters could help revive New Orleans
Feb 03, 2008; ... NEW ORLEANS - When Roger Wilson stands at the edge of downtown,he doesn't see the shuttered theaters others do or get that sketchyvibe some feel in this part of the city. Instead, the New Orleans-born actor sees a thriving theater district along Canal Street. Abright, tourist mecca: ...
Weather data
Feb 03, 2008 ... CHARLESTON AND VICINITY Saturday's temperatures High 53 Low 30 Feb. 2 record high 73 set in 1990 Feb. 2 record low 1 set in 1951 Saturday's precipitation Midnight to 5 p.m.: ...
Road trip for a circus takes lots of preparation
Feb 03, 2008; ... TAMPA, Fla. - Three weeks before opening night, director AmyTinkham is at center ring working intently with a woman who will belifted by her hair and twirled overhead seconds before motorcycleszip underneath her. That's supposed to happen just as an acrobatlaunches himself from an ...
World weather
Feb 03, 2008 ... Amsterdam 46 37 Rain Athens 60 41 PCldy Baghdad 53 37 Clr Berlin 46 37 Rain Bermuda 71 65 Rain Cairo 63 45 Clr Calgary 12 -14 PCldy Dublin 38 30 Rain Hong Kong 52 46 PCldy Jerusalem 59 48 Cldy London 47 32 ...
State & regional weather
Feb 03, 2008 ... W.Va. Today - Monday Partly sunny. Highs in the mid-50s. Tonight, mostly cloudy with a20 percent chance of showers. Lows in the upper 30s. Monday, mostlycloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers. Highs around 60. Mondaynight, mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers ....