Geraldine Ferraro was born on August 26, 1935, the third child of Dominick and Antonetta Ferraro. Dominick Ferraro was an Italian immigrant who operated a nightclub in Newburgh, a small city north of New York City known to be wide open to organized crime. When Ferraro was eight years old, her father was arrested and charged with operating an illegal gambling operation. He died of a heart attack the day he was to appear for trial. After her father’s death,
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Don’t jump to conclusions because this disease has symptoms that could belong to thousands of other less serious diseases. Signs and symptoms of multiple myeloma can vary from person to person. Although the condition may not cause symptoms early on in its course, it’s likely that you’ll experience one or more of the following as the disease progresses: Bone pain, particularly in your back, pelvis, ribs and skull. Presence of abnormal proteins — which can be produced by myeloma cells
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Geraldine Ferraro passed away today after a long battle with Multiple Myeloma, a cancer of the blood forming tissues (bone marrow). There are treatment for this disease and a person can live a long time with this disease. New treatments may be emerging every day. Geraldine Ferraro was a great American — Google her and read about her life. She was a Democrat in the great tradition of REAL Democrats like JFK and FDR. Ms. Ferraro was a very inspirational
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Recent photographs of Bruce Springsteen that have been spreading around the Internet have created quite a stir because it seems as though The Boss has had quite a bit of plastic surgery. Some people think that Bruce doesn’t even look like Bruce anymore. “He certainly has had a facial lifting of some sort and he has also had an eye lift (blepharoplasty) and a brow raising,” said plastic surgeon, Dr. Fred Ostermanz of the Ostermanz Plastic Surgery Center in Georgeville,
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New York Catskill Mountains – BIGFOOT HOTSPOT! After years of speculation that something was “going on out there,” residents and past visitors to the Northern Catskill Mountains are starting to be taken seriously about a Bigfoot-like creature many reported to have seen. To date there have been hundreds of police reports, and the sightings are becoming more and more frequent in this lush area of mountains, hills and forests “I filed a report with the local police over ten years
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The original ( A Lady For A Day) was better — Bette Davis over-acts badly in this film — she’s supposed to be a street bum — — Glenn Ford is far too refined to play this part — he’s a great actor but you can’t hide breeding, and he had it. The movie is waaaaaay too long — and I hate to say it but Frank Capra was kind of a cornball director. No character is really fleshed out
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A malicious attacker that appears to be the Iranian government managed to obtain supposedly secure digital certificates that can be used to impersonate Google, Yahoo, Skype, and other major Web sites, the security company affected by the breach said today. Comodo, a Jersey City, NJ-based firm that issues digital certificates, said the nine certificates were fraudulently obtained, including one for Microsoft’s Live.com, have already been revoked. A fraudulent certificate allows someone to impersonate the secure versions of those Web sites
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LOS ANGELES – Screen legend Elizabeth Taylor has died in Los Angeles. She was 79. Publicist Sally Morrison says the actress died Wednesday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center from congestive heart failure. Morrison says her children were at her side. She’d been hospitalized for about six weeks. Taylor first gained stardom as a child and appeared in more than 50 films. She won Oscars for her performances in “Butterfield 8” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” She was equally famous
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