Dotcom Tucson Editors Pick Archives

Here is a collection of past Site Editor's Picks. Most of these will deal with Tucson, the Sonora Desert region, and Arizona, but you will also find opinion editorials on these pages occasionally, as well as submissions by people living in Tucson who just had something they had to say. It's quite the potpourri – enjoy!

According to media sources, the following lawmakers are under investigation either by the Congressional Ethics Committee or one or more law enforcement agencies:

Senators
Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.)
Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.)
Representatives
Former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R-Calif.)
Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas)
Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.)
Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.)
Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.)
Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-W.V.)
Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio)

Google Earth 4 beta
If you want to zoom around the planet and tour the earth's cities, lakes, peaks, and valleys from the sky, Google Earth 4 beta is the next best thing to chartering a flight. This free application allows you to zoom from space down to the ground and zip around earthbound locations, as well. With beta version 4, Google not only makes it easier to get around the globe, it also throws in the ability to populate your locations with 3D designs created in Google SketchUp.

There’s Always Help; There’s Always Hope
by Dr. Eve A. Wood
Award-winning Book Offers Diagnostic Tools, Integrated Approach to Therapy for Depression, Anxiety and for Taking Charge of your Emotional Health

Tucson, Arizona June 14, 2006 -- According to a recent report by the Surgeon General, 43.8 million Americans will seek therapy in a given year. Many will be frustrated in their attempts to heal because they lack a necessary diagnosis or carry a wrong one. Enter There's Always Help; There's Always Hope: An award winning psychiatrist shows you how to heal your body, mind and spirit (ISBN: 1-4019-1119-6, Hay House Inc., May 2006, paperback, $14.95 US, www.HayHouse.com). I have seldom been so moved by a book

This award-winning book by Dr. Eve Wood, a noted psychiatrist, professor and speaker, empowers individuals by showing them how to use their own stories to determine whether they meet diagnostic criteria for a common psychiatric condition. The book is now available online and in bookstores nationwide.

There's Always Help; There's Always Hope lays out an integrative approach to healing that combines traditional psychiatric medicine and universal spiritual principles. Winner of nine national book awards, including the prestigious Benjamin Franklin Award for Best New Voice in Non-fiction, the book offers tips, tools and resources. Dr. Wood teaches by sharing real stories from nearly two decades of clinical practice.

"I have seldom been so moved by a book," writes C. Everett Koop, M.D., McInerny Professor of Surgery, Dartmouth Medical School. In his forward to There's Always Help; There's Always Hope, the former U.S. Surgeon General writes:
"You simply won’t find a book like this one very often. It is written by a physician who loves her patients and has come to see that life depends not on the hand you are dealt, but on how you choose to live it. With There’s Always Help; There’s Always Hope, we have finally been given a model that integrates the treatment of the body, mind, and spirit. To my way of thinking, it is the only model of healing that makes sense, and I have learned more from this book than I have elsewhere in a very long time."

About the author

Eve A. Wood, MD is Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona Program in Integrative Medicine. A practicing psychiatrist, author, speaker, radio host, columnist and consultant, Dr. Wood is a pioneer in the field of integrative psychiatry. She has spent nearly two decades and over 28,000 hours in the care of troubled individuals from all walks of life. Dr. Wood’s widely acclaimed treatment approach combines traditional psychiatric medicine, psychology and universal spiritual principles.

Dr. Wood has her own call-in radio show, Healing Your Body, Mind and Spirit, which airs every Tuesday at 3pm PST on www.HayHouseRadio.com and Sirius satellite radio channel 114 LIME. She has written articles for many medical and professional publications, and is a feature columnist for Massage Therapy Journal. Dr. Wood lives in Tucson with her husband and four children, ages 8 to 18. She maintains a small clinical and consulting practice and teaches at the University of Arizona Medical School.

For more information: www.DrEveWood.com

Polar Bears May Be Turning to Cannibalism
By Dan Joling, Asociated Press

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP)—Polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea may be turning to cannibalism because longer seasons without ice keep them from getting to their natural food, a new study by American and Canadian scientists has found.
The study reviewed three examples of polar bears preying on each other from January to April 2004 north of Alaska and western Canada, including the first-ever reported killing of a female in a den shortly after it gave birth.
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Animal rights protest shuts down restaurant

BEIJING (Reuters) - Banner-wielding animal rights protesters swarmed into a restaurant serving cat meat in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen and forced it to shut, Xinhua news agency said Sunday.

The 40 or so, mainly female demonstrators -- holding banners reading "cats and dogs are friends of human beings" -- entered the Fangji Cat Meatball restaurant and demanded the owner free any live cats on the premises, Xinhua said.
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Short Attention Spans…
Brian M. Williams, 21, was arrested for allegedly robbing Houchens Market in Glasgow, Ky., in April; police had found him minutes afterward across the street filling his gas tank. And Nathan Myles, 25, was sentenced in March to three years in prison for a lengthy, destructive police chase in Thunder Bay, Ontario; it ended when Myles stopped for a haircut. And Mario Caracoza, 26, was arrested for allegedly robbing a Bank of America in Bristol Township, Pa., in May; police had found him minutes afterward eating breakfast at the Sunrise Diner next door. [Glasgow Daily Times, 4-18-06] [Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal, 3-4-06] [Trentonian, 5-9-06]

International scientists will recreate the immediate aftermath of the "Big Bang" in a bid to uncover the mysteries of the universe, a world physics summit announced Thursday.

The laboratory experiment will take place in Europe next year with the collaboration of US, Japanese and Russian scientists to increase scientific knowledge of dark energy and matter, said summit organizer Carlos Montufar, of Ecuador's San Francisco University.

"The idea is to generate a clash between particles similar to what happened a thousandth of a second after the Big Bang and see what it could tell us about the standard model of matter," Montufar told AFP.

So far, the model only offers an understanding of four percent of the universe's dark energy and matter, he said.

The universe is famously believed to have been born in a Big Bang around 12-14 billion years ago and has been expanding ever since, driven by a mysterious force known as dark energy.

US, Japanese, European and Latin American scientists have been meeting at the Galapagos island of San Cristobal since Wednesday for the summit, which is being attended by Nobel physics prize laureates Frank Wilczeck and Leon Lederman of the United States.

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